Crowds Gather to See Huge Chunk Fall Off of The Eiger
John Hooper writes in The Guardian (UK):
A vast chunk of Europe's most ill-famed mountain threatens to break loose and crash down in the next few days, a geologist monitoring the situation told the Guardian on Friday.More here.
Hans-Rudolf Keusen said 2m cubic metres of the Eiger in the Bernese Alps, Switzerland - twice the volume of the Empire State Building - was rapidly working its way loose. He said the mountain appeared to have cracked open as an indirect result of global warming.
posted by Fergie @ 7/07/2006 08:14:00 AM
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