Tag: Rockfall
Massive rockfall narrowly misses the Swiss mountain village of Brienz
Status: 06/16/2023 1:59 p.m A rockfall has been looming in the Swiss mountain village of Brienz for weeks. Live cameras showed falling boulders. During the night, the natural event reached…
Graubünden: Massive rockfall just missed the Swiss mountain village of Brienz
Huge sliding rock masses have been threatening the place for a long time. Now a road above the village lies meters high under rubble. And it’s probably not all down…
Impending rockfall: A Swiss mountain village has to be evacuated
report Status: 05/12/2023 08:57 a.m The “Brienzer Slide” has been rumbling in Switzerland for a long time. But now everything has to happen quickly – the village of Brienz has…
Climate change on Mont Blanc: Rockfall with chunks “as big as refrigerators”
alpinism Climate change on Mont Blanc: Rockfall with chunks “as big as refrigerators” The mountaineering monument in Chamonix with Horace Bénédict de Saussure who first climbed Mont Blanc in 1786.…
Rockfall in tourist lake kills at least seven, three missing
A tragedy mourned a very tourist site on Saturday in Brazil. The fall of a section of cliff on boats sailing on a lake in the state of Minas Gerais,…