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.
to hear the news. I can recall that being a beautiful area of the country and the Alps.
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Rocks Cascade From Famous Swiss Mountain
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cbcbd
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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.
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
Active member
A 15-minute avalanche that dropped 20 million cubic feet of rock - ???!!! That must have been something to see......
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.
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
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"Geologic time includes now."
BeanoNYC
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pizza said:
quite profound.
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