On Tuesday, rescuers using drones resumed their search for an estimated 13 hikers. The temperature rise when the glacier is melting.
After rain hindered Monday's search, Tuesday's fine weather could bring more rescue teams to the site of the Marmolada Glacier, east of Bolzano in the Dolomites. I was able to do it.
A huge mass of glaciers cleaved on Sunday, causing an avalanche and sending a torrent of ice, rocks and debris down the hillside to unprotected hikers. At least seven people have died and an estimated 13 have yet to be explained, officials said.
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The terrain is still very unstable, so the crew stayed sideways and tried to use the drone to find the survivors while the rescue helicopter was searching overhead. Some crew members used equipment to detect cell phone pings. Two rescuers stayed overnight at the scene, and more rescuers joined on Tuesday morning.
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"We continue to work on the drone to find survivors in areas that we couldn't monitor yesterday. "I'm telling Matteo Gasperini, Sky TG24, an alpine rescue service. "Trying to complete the task of monitoring the entire site."
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Prime Minister Mario Draghi, who visited the Kanazei rescue base on Monday, admitted that the avalanche was unpredictable. But the tragedy "certainly depends on the worsening climate."
Italy is in the midst of the heat wave of early summer, with the worst drought in northern Italy in 70 years. According to experts, there was unusually little snowfall during the winter, and glaciers in the Italian Alps were exposed to the heat of the summer and melted.
"We are in the worst situation for this kind of separation when there is so much heat and a lot of water flowing at the base," said Renato of the National Institute of Polar Sciences.・ Korucci said the National Research Council, or CNR. "I'm still not sure if it's a deep or superficial separation, but judging by the preliminary images and information I received, it seems to be very large in size."
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CNR could disappear altogether in the next 25-30 years if current climatic trends continue, given the loss of the Marmolada Glacier I presume that there is sex. From 2004 to 2015, 30% of the amount and 22% of the area.
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