Beauty is a side effect here, not the goal. A glacier’s slow abrasion and plucking gouged overdeepened basins and U‑shaped troughs, then abandoned them as it thinned and retreated, leaving rock bowls that later filled with meltwater and rain. Those elongated basins, bounded by steep valley walls and bedrock thresholds, now host Europe’s glossy lakeside resorts.The bigger surprise is how defensive ...More