The paper by Leger et al. presents a large-scale reconstruction of glacial sediment transport in the Alps, offering both novel insights and a versatile computational framework for investigating glacial processes at Quaternary time scales. The study's relevance spans paleo-glacier dynamics, sediment transport, and landscape evolution in alpine environments, making it highly valuable to geomorphologists, glacial geologists, and sedimentologists, as well as applied sectors. The developed model has the potential to unlock numerous key research questions relating to past and present glacier behavior.