1st August 2025
Almost 100 vacationers have been evacuated from the Brenta Dolomites in Italy after a collection of rockfalls. Melting permafrost is blamed and additional rockfalls are threatened. NEW
Consultants are inspecting the slopes of Cima Falkner, the place a number of rockfalls have been recorded this week.
There are reported to be important expansions of present fractures.
Many of those fractures have been as soon as stuffed with ice, however rising temperatures have melted the ice.
When water turns to ice it expands and stabilises the rock formation.
When it melts it weakens it.
“The whole summit is affected by an ongoing geomorphological course of, probably linked to permafrost degradation,” mentioned native geologists.
The director of the native authorities’s Geology Division, Volkmar Mair, mentioned the state of affairs in Brenta will not be distinctive.
“We now have the identical issues in all places. We additionally had collapses within the South Tyrolean Dolomites and we’re conscious that we are able to have it in all places,” he instructed the native newspaper, Corriere del Trentino.
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Important rockfalls occurred on Cima Falkner, 2999 m (Brenta Dolomites) final Sunday on each its W and E faces! 🏔️ 🔥
The whole peak is affected by an ongoing morphogenetic phenomenon, probably associated to degradation of permafrost.https://t.co/ZPz5IRKCjO
📽️ cnsastrentino/IG pic.twitter.com/mnZFDqSZB1
— Melaine Le Roy (@subfossilguy) August 1, 2025
The Dolomites noticed a serious landslide in 2022 when a part of the Marmolada glacier collapsed, killing 11 hikers and injuring eight.
Marmolada ice collapse. Picture c/o Alpine rescue companies.
Earlier this summer season the evacuated Swiss village of Blatten was utterly buried as a glacier collapsed and triggered a large landslide.
Temperatures within the Alps are rising at twice the worldwide common and this will increase instability within the mountains.
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