The climate is changing, global temperature is rising. The impacts are already apparent, especially in the mountains but also in the lowlands. The permafrost zone is shifting higher up and the masses of snow melt whooshing from the glaciers to the valleys are already increasing incessantly. Rivers are going to rise up to powerful floods and dwindle down to extremely low waters the next second. «Alpine Meltdown» takes us to a future world, presenting changes that have already occurred and pursuing the question how the alpine landscapes are going to look like at the end of the 21st century.