Drought: Two Refuges From Mont Blanc Closed Due to Falling Stones
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On Wednesday, August 12, the rescuers of Chamonix's high-mountain gendarmerie platoon (PGHM) intervened four times in the Mont-Blanc massif.
The heat is increasingly creating the Alps. A community on Mont Blanc is reacting with a drastic step.
After the temporary stop of ascents of Mont Blanc over the Italian side, two French mountain huts have also been closed for safety reasons. The huts Tête Rousse and Goûter are affected, as the mayor of Saint-Gervais, Jean-Marc Peillex, announced. In his municipality lies the French route to the summit. The unusually high temperatures of the past weeks have made the rock walls more unstable and the glaciers more dangerous. The zero-grade limit wa…
On Tuesday, the mayor of Saint-Gervais (Haute-Savoie) announced that he had closed two stage shelters on the Mont Blanc ascent road. The cause was very dangerous rock falls linked to the drought, which have already caused several deaths since the beginning of the season. A major collapse took place last weekend in the Goûter corridor. - A "mortal danger": two stage shelters on Mont Blanc closed due to falling stones related to drought (Environme…
The mayor of Saint-Gervais took a municipal decree prohibiting access to the refuges of Tête Rousse and du Goûter in the face of the deadly danger posed by the landslides in the corridor of the same name Two
Dangerous falls of stones in the corridor allowing the climb of Mount Blanc, due to the drought, force the authorities to close two shelters
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