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.
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.
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