Rocks Cascade From Famous Swiss Mountain

**thetrailboss** · Jul 14, 2006, 10:29 AM

Just read this article and I was

to hear the news. I can recall that being a beautiful area of the country and the Alps.

cbcbd · Jul 14, 2006, 10:47 AM

Global warming.
I'd like to put some people at the bottom of that slide so they can see it first hand.

This is not the first slide of rocks that has been happening because of the unusual melting of perma frost in the Alps. In 2003 a similar slide of rocks detatched from the Matterhorn - the Swiss are pissed.

A lot of classic ice routes from the mid 1900s have pretty much disappeared because of the warming.

ChileMass · Jul 14, 2006, 11:23 AM

A 15-minute avalanche that dropped 20 million cubic feet of rock - ???!!! That must have been something to see......

**JimG.** · Jul 14, 2006, 12:06 PM

My mom is Swiss...been there many times.

Even way back when I was a boy we used to ride the train from Zurich into the Alps and my mom would point out the huge scars on mountainsides from massive rock slides. Many of the valley towns constructed barriers on the hillsides to break up and disperse these slides when they happened. These barriers doubled as avalanche protection.

This is a fact of life when you live in steep mountainous areas and it always will be.

pizza · Jul 14, 2006, 1:31 PM

"Geologic time includes now."

BeanoNYC · Jul 14, 2006, 1:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pizza

"Geologic time includes now."

quite profound.

Jul 14, 2006, 10:29 AM	#1 (permalink)
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cbcbd Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Seattle,WA Posts: 1,557	Global warming. I'd like to put some people at the bottom of that slide so they can see it first hand. This is not the first slide of rocks that has been happening because of the unusual melting of perma frost in the Alps. In 2003 a similar slide of rocks detatched from the Matterhorn - the Swiss are pissed. A lot of classic ice routes from the mid 1900s have pretty much disappeared because of the warming. __________________ Sign, sign everywhere a sign... pointing out the trails, can\'t make up my mind.

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Jul 14, 2006, 11:23 AM	#3 (permalink)
ChileMass In the Whites Aug 2008 Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: East/Central MA Posts: 2,286	A 15-minute avalanche that dropped 20 million cubic feet of rock - ???!!! That must have been something to see......

Jul 14, 2006, 12:06 PM	#4 (permalink)
JimG. MRG-20th hole Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Hopewell Jct., NY Posts: 6,100	My mom is Swiss...been there many times. Even way back when I was a boy we used to ride the train from Zurich into the Alps and my mom would point out the huge scars on mountainsides from massive rock slides. Many of the valley towns constructed barriers on the hillsides to break up and disperse these slides when they happened. These barriers doubled as avalanche protection. This is a fact of life when you live in steep mountainous areas and it always will be.