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Collapse of the Marmolada glacier: report at the heart of the disaster

2022-07-07T15:05:43.826Z


SEEN FROM ELSEWHERE - The objective of the emergency services is to try everything to recover the bodies and the parts which, once acquired by the magistrates, will make it possible to transform the missing persons into official missing persons.


By Gianpaolo Visetti

(La Repubblica) -

In Canazei, Italy

The crater dug by the collapse of the glacier is invaded by a mountain of blocks of ice which do not stop rushing into two large black crevasses.

Torrents of brown water, in which boulders navigate, also throw themselves into the void, to then be engulfed in the belly of the summit serac of Punta Rocca.

This bubbling lip of ice, torn by a crack that starts under the summit at 3200 meters above sea level, now dominates the valley of Pian dei Fiacconi, 700 meters below, where the five people who disappeared in the tragedy of the Marmolada are still buried. happened on Sunday.

casting head

Aboard the fire brigade's B3 Ecureuil, suitable for high mountain flying, we fly closely over the glacier that has collapsed on the climbers, surprised as they trek along the usual route to the summit.

After more than a kilometer, we reach the head of the flow, a sort of black delta that…

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Source: lefigaro

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