Italian rescuers had little hope on Monday July 4 of finding possible survivors after the collapse due to a heat wave of part of the Marmolada glacier, the largest in the Italian Alps, which killed at least six people. and eight wounded.
The disaster occurred the day after a record temperature of 10°C at the top of the glacier, weakened by global warming for decades.
The explanations of Ludovic Ravanel, geomorphologist at the CNRS.
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