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Glacier disaster in the Dolomites: "Critical situation" - several missing, mountain rescue gives details

2022-07-04T15:04:53.547Z


Glacier disaster in the Dolomites: "Critical situation" - several missing, mountain rescue gives details Created: 07/04/2022Updated: 07/04/2022 16:56 By: Martina Lippl Huge chunks of ice have broken off a glacier in the Dolomites. Rescue workers found another body. The search for the missing continues. All information in the news ticker. Dolomiten-Bergrettung gives new details : "Situation cri


Glacier disaster in the Dolomites: "Critical situation" - several missing, mountain rescue gives details

Created: 07/04/2022Updated: 07/04/2022 16:56

By: Martina Lippl

Huge chunks of ice have broken off a glacier in the Dolomites.

Rescue workers found another body.

The search for the missing continues.

All information in the news ticker.

  • Dolomiten-Bergrettung

    gives new

    details

    : "Situation critical" - more missing.

  • Glacier crash

    in the

    Dolomites

    : Two Germans among the injured.

  • Glacier fall

    in the

    Dolomites

    : At least six climbers died on Sunday afternoon (July 3rd), there are 20 missing.

  • This news ticker about the glacier fall in the Dolomites is updated regularly.

Update from July 4th, 4:16 p.m

.: Bad weather in the Dolomites hinders the search operation on the Marmolada.

Because of the rain, the drones currently have to stay on the ground.

"At the moment the situation is critical because there is a risk of further crashes, nobody can enter the glacier," said Alex Barattin, a spokesman for Alpine Mountain Rescue, as reported by the Italian newspaper

La Stampa

.

"We monitor everything with drones, where we find something in detail, we intervene with the helicopter," says Alex Barattin.

Dolomiten-Bergrettung gives new details: "Situation critical" - more missing

The drones had previously sighted and also recovered people, material and ropes.

The search operation will resume on Monday as soon as weather conditions permit.

The number of missing after the glacier fall is initially unclear.

14 people have been reported missing by family members to authorities because they have not returned home.

This was announced by the President of the Trento region, Maurizio Fugatti, according to the Italian news agency Ansa.

Four of them are foreign nationals: from the Czech Republic and one from Austria.

But there are still four cars in the parking lot.

No information was available about the occupants.

One vehicle comes from Germany, two from the Czech Republic and one from Hungary.

According to the rescuers, it is almost impossible to find the missing alive.

Marmolada disaster: death toll after glacial collapse increases

Update from July 4, 1:26 p.m

.: The death toll has now risen to seven, reports the Italian newspaper

Corriere.it

.

Another body was recovered by the rescue workers, reports Italian media unanimously.

At the moment there are 19 confirmed missing persons.

Two of the eight injured are in critical condition, the Italian news agency Ansa said.

Four of the fatalities have been identified.

There are three Italians, including two mountain guides.

On the Marmolada glacier, the search for other possible victims will continue on Monday.

A hiker who survived the glacial collapse speaks of a "miracle".

"There was a dull noise, then a sea of ​​ice came down," Steffano tells

Corriere.it.

He was a little higher than the victims at the moment.

"It's useless to run, you can only pray it doesn't cross your path." He and his companion crouched down and "hugs each other tightly as the ice rushes by".

Glacier crash in the Dolomites: 20 people missing – including Germans among the injured

Update from July 4, 12:11 p.m

.: The two German climbers are among the injured.

A 67-year-old man and a 58-year-old woman would be treated in the hospital in an intensive care unit.

Both would be closely monitored, the local health authority said on Monday afternoon. 

After the glacier fall in the Dolomites, the chief public prosecutor's office is now investigating.

“At the moment there are 17 missing, 8 injured, 2 of them in very serious condition.

Two of the injured are German nationals.

The victims are currently 6, of whom 4 have been identified," Trento chief prosecutor Sandro Raimondi explained on Italian TV channel Rai.

In connection with the tragedy, an investigation file has been opened against unknown persons because of a culpable catastrophe.

The chief public prosecutor's office fears that the number of victims will continue to rise.

A 27-year-old is believed to be among the dead.

Shortly before the massive ice fall, he is said to have sent a selfie to his brother.

Since then there has been silence, there would be no news.

A mountain guide (51) from northern Italy is said to have died in the glacier fall.

  • The

    Marmolada

    (3,343 meters) is the highest mountain in the Dolomites and part of the Marmolada group.

  • The

    Marmolada Glacier

    is one of the largest in the Italian Alps and is located on the north side of the Marmolada Group, in the provinces of Trento and Belluno.

  • Disaster on the Marmolada

    : Boulders and blocks of ice broke off near Punta Rocca on the ascent route to the summit on Sunday afternoon (July 3).

    Several rope teams were in the area.

Record temperatures on the Marmolada glacier

Update from July 4th, 11.40 a.m

.: One day after the ice fall on the Marmolada, the extent of the tragedy is still difficult to grasp.

Italian media reports that temperatures of over ten degrees have been measured on the summit of the Marmolada (3,343 meters) in the past few days.

Unusual temperatures for this time of year, according to a spokesman for the mountain rescuers on the Italian television station Rai.

The extreme heat wave in Italy since the end of June could also have contributed to a so-called sérac, a tower made of glacial ice, breaking off.

At a speed of 300 kilometers per hour, the ice masses have fallen from the Mamolata glacier, reports Rai.

The Italian television station relies on Maurizio Fugatti, head of government of the Trentino region.

A 200 meter long ice front, 60 meters high and 80 meters deep, is still connected to the mountain.

The roughly two soccer fields filled with ice would be exposed to a 45-degree incline.

Glacier fall in the Dolomites: Two Germans are said to be involved

Bolzano – Suddenly ice, snow and debris thundered down into the valley.

At least six climbers die.

20 people are still missing.

According to the latest findings, Germans are also involved in the accident.

The rescuers have little hope of finding more survivors among the masses of ice, snow and rock.

In the parking lot at the foot of the mountain, the cars were checked to find out if and how many people were still missing, the mountain rescue service SUEM Veneto tweeted.

18 people were evacuated from the summit of Punta Rocca on Sunday.

"The Marmolada is closed to the public."

A massive glacier fracture occurred on the Marmolada in the northern Italian region of Trentino on Sunday.

After the fatal glacier fall in northern Italy, the Federal Foreign Office assumes that Germans are involved in the accident, reports the dpa news agency.

According to the current status, there are two people, said a spokeswoman on Monday.

The Foreign Office initially did not provide any further information.

The honorary consul in Bolzano and the German embassy in Rome are in constant contact with the Italian authorities, it said.

Extreme mountaineer Reinhold Messner on the tragedy in the Dolomites: "We will see more often incidents like on the Marmolada"

Extreme mountaineer and environmentalist Reinhold Messner sees the accident as a consequence of climate change and global warming.

"These eat away at the glaciers," said the 77-year-old in an interview with the dpa news agency.

So-called ice towers - called seracs - then form on the edges of the glacier, "which can be as big as skyscrapers or rows of houses," explained Messner.

Incidents like those on the Marmolada "we will see more often", he predicted, because "today there are many more rock and ice falls than in the past".

Glacier fall in the Dolomites: emergency services report terrible scenes

And these can then have terrible consequences, like on Sunday on the massif on the border between the Trentino-Alto Adige and Veneto regions.

The visibly shocked mountain rescuer Luigi Felicetti reported on the mission: "When we arrived on site, we were presented with an unbelievable picture.

There were blocks of ice and huge stones everywhere.”

The Ansa news agency quoted investigators as saying that an "unimaginable bloodbath" took place on the mountain, after which "it will be difficult to determine the identity of the victims because the bodies were dismembered" by the chunks of ice and stone.

After a glacier fall on the Marmolada: Italy's Prime Minister Dragi travels to the scene of the accident

Italy's Prime Minister Mario Draghi traveled to the scene of the accident on Monday after the glacier collapse in northern Italy with at least six dead.

The 74-year-old head of government wants to arrive in Canazei around noon, where the authorities have set up a situation center, according to Draghi's official residence in Rome.

There he should be informed about the situation together with the head of civil protection.

The mountain is on the border of the Veneto and Trentino-Alto Adige regions.

Italy's head of state Sergio Mattarella called the presidents of the two regions to express his condolences, the Quirinal Palace announced on Monday.

(ml/dpa)

Source: merkur

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