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    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.

    Crowds gather to see chunk fall off Eiger

    John Hooper
    Friday July 7, 2006
    The Guardian

    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.

    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.

    There was no danger to human beings. "There aren't any houses underneath, so no one is going to end up getting a rock on the head," Mr Keusen said.
    Dr. Mordrid
    Dr. Mordrid
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    An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.

    I carry a gun because I can't throw a rock 1,250 fps

  • #2
    So how is this a result of global warming? The Alps are young mountains.. they are bound to erode like this.

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    • #3
      Yup, but the G/W fanatics never miss a chance....
      Dr. Mordrid
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      An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.

      I carry a gun because I can't throw a rock 1,250 fps

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      • #4
        Oh c'mon, he said "indirect".

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