Authorities install radar system to better monitor massive area of fast-moving glacier on Italian side of Mont Blanc massif that risks breaking off and striking tourist valley.
Authorities have installed a radar system to better monitor a massive area of a fast-moving glacier on the Italian side of the Mont Blanc massif that risks breaking off and striking a tourist valley.
The radar system installed Thursday provides constant data on movements of even millimeters. That compares with the satellite photo monitoring already in place, which requires clear skies and between six and 12 days to get comparative images. The mayor of Courmayeur, Stevano Miserocchi, has closed a road due to the risk that a 250,000-cubic-meter mass of the Planpincieux glacier could collapse in the Val Ferret, a popular hiking area nearby.
The alarm was sounded after movements of up to 50 centimeters a day were recorded. Higher-than-usual summer temperatures had formed a deep fissure.
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