The ice-covered south peak was measured at 2,088.3 metres above sea level, a decrease of 10 centimetres from the same time last year. The north peak, which is ice-free and has a fixed height of 2,096.8 metres, is thus Sweden's highest point for the eighth year in a row.
"The South Peak has decreased in height by about 30 metres since the first systematic measurements (1951). This year's low melting is, in this context, a small decrease compared with previous years, but still a decrease despite the cold summer," says Johanna Dahlkvist, station manager at the Tarfala Research Station at Stockholm University, which is carrying out the measurements.
The melting of the southern peak varies from year to year. Last year it melted by 1.5 metres, and during the record-warm 2024 by 3.4 metres.
