My pilgrimage to the vanishing Sphinx snow patch

The Sphinx, a spot of snowfall believed to beryllium the longest-lasting successful the UK, has melted for the 4th consecutive year.

Iain Cameron has spent decades surveying the patch, hidden successful 1 of the astir isolated parts of Scotland's Cairngorms.

Describing his enactment arsenic “citizen science", Iain and different experts papers areas of snowfall crossed the state and stock their findings with the Royal Meteorological Society.

The spot was thought to beryllium a imperishable fixture successful the Scottish scenery - researchers property its caller melting to the effects of clime change.

Video by Danielle Fleming and Morgan Spence