Eiger sheds rock mass (half the size of Empire State Building)

[muriel_volestrangler]

And there's 4 times the amount to come.

A huge slice of rock has fallen from the Eiger mountain in the Swiss Alps in a spectacular collapse that came after days of warnings from scientists.

The rock - loosened by melting glacial ice – crashed down shortly before 8pm on Thursday, blanketing the Bernese Oberland resort of Grindelwald in a cloud of dust for hours.

Rescue chief Kurt Amacher of the Swiss Alpine Club told swissinfo that about 400,000 cubic metres of stone - or 20 per cent of the endangered rock mass - had come crashing down.
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Grindelwald itself was never in danger from the fall, no one was injured and no buildings were hit, Amacher added. He said that the remainder of the rock could fall very soon.

http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/front/detail/Eiger_sheds_rock_mass.html?siteSect=105&sid=6894523&cKey=1152862992000

Due to global warming, and the shrinking glacier by the rock face.

Photos from Der Spiegel: http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MTUwMjUmbnI9MQ_3_3,00.html

[donsu]

1. thanks for posting the pics

nt

[zbdent]

2. Time for a sanction ...

;)

[midnight armadillo]

5. good one

you beat me to it :)

[zbdent]

3. Gee, scientists actually warned about something that later occurred?

What did the "faith-based community" claim?

[skids]

4. Yeah, obviously this scientist...

...was just "crying wolf in order to get funding" like all the rest of them. :-)