The June heatwave has left its mark on the Alps, where snow is already in short supply, affecting glaciers now living on borrowed time, along with the refuges that rely on them. "With the heatwave in June that we just had, everything dried out," says Noemie Dagan, caretaker of the Refuge de la Selle, perched at 2,673 metres in the Ecrins, a vast mineral massif nestled between Isère and the Hautes-Alpes, dominated by two majestic peaks rising above 4,000 metres. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES