At least six masses have died and up to 15 people are thought to be missing after a large glacier column collapsed into a landslide in the Italian Dolomites . While tramper enjoyed the pop route at Marmolada point , the ice cleaved off the glacier and created a huge landslide of ice and rock , crash into a number of hoi polloi along the trail and sweep away multiple parties who were rope onto the rocks at the meter .
Nine are presently injured and experience treatment , and it is reckon that foreign nationals are among the dead .
The National Alpine and Cave Rescue Corps of Italy have since beentweetingupdates about the incident , admit a helpline if you have friends and family members who may not have returned from their hostile expedition .
eggbeater and canine units are now exploring the area for survivors , though the hunt was hesitate amid fears of another glacier collapse .
It is thought the incident lead from the collapse of a serac , a notoriously life-threatening feature of glaciers typically found on high peak . A serac is a large tower or block of sparkler , typically many stories tall , that forms a erect paries that is liable to collapse at any point . Their unpredictable and often ruinous nature has gained them a reputation among the most grave areas of a mountain peak .
Likely the most famous series of seracs tugboat above the Bottleneck , an integral part of the most pop route to the summit of K2 – the secondly - in high spirits mass on Earth . The Bottleneck is a narrow couloir ( a channel in a mountain ) overlooked by multiple seracs from the eastern shabu subject area . These seracs have been responsible for the huge majority of fatalities that have occurred on K2 . As climbers attempt to navigate the tricky technical portion of the Bottleneck , sudden collapses of the seracs above lead to either direct impacts with climbers or the removal of safety ropes and good routes above or below their current positioning . The infamous2008 K2 disasterwas a unmediated upshot of an frappe avalanche at the Bottleneck , causing the deaths of 11 mountaineers and the injury of three others .
The flop at Marmolada peak may be partially due to utmost warmth in the area , with temperatures reaching 10 ° C ( 50 ° F ) , fit in to local officials .
“ The hotness is strange , ” said Walter Milan , spokesman for the Corps , in a instruction reported by theGuardian .
“ That ’s extreme high temperature . Clearly it ’s something abnormal . ”
