Drones flew over an Italian Alpine mountainside to try and spot more victims, a day after a huge chunk of a melting glacier broke loose, sending an avalanche of ice and snow into hikers. At least six were killed and an indeterminate number are missing.
Drones were being used to look for any of the missing as well as verify safety.
Rescuers said conditions downslope from the glacier, which has been melting for decades, were still too unstable to early Monday to send back teams of people and dogs to dig into tons of debris. What caused a pinnacle of the glacier to break off and thunder down the slope at a speed estimated by experts at some 300 kph , wasn’t immediately known. But the heat wave gripping Italy since May, bringing temperatures unusually high for the start of summer even up in the normally cooler Alps was being cited as a likely factor.
“It’s absolutely an anomaly,″ Gabrieli said in an interview on Italian state TV Monday. Like other experts, he said it would have been impossible to predict when or if a serac — a pinnacle from a glacier’s overhang — could break off, as it did on Sunday.
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