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Swiss village lives in the shadow of an unstable mountain

Kandersteg, a picturesque Swiss Alpine village, sits beneath the unstable Spitze Stei rock formation, which could trigger a major landslide if it collapses. Scientists say rising temperatures are melting glaciers and thawing mountain permafrost, making slopes increasingly unstable across the Alps.

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00:01Can you help me?
00:03Ok, I will.
00:40you are aware it's happening but not afraid so and they try to do all the precautions what they
00:47could do but still then it's nature it's nature and you never know and they say as long as the
00:53glacier or the glacier that let's say that the material is moving it takes actually the pressure
00:59off of the whole thing so it doesn't come down in one big piece so it's better it releases all
01:06the
01:06time a little bit of the material
01:18in Platten war ein Bergsturz da kam der ganze Fels runter auf den Gletscher und hat das alles
01:26ausgedrückt und dann war das Eis und der Schutt oben auf dem Gletscher der alles in grossen Dimensionen
01:34runter kam hier beim Spitzenstein ist loses Gestein das ist im Moment noch verbunden mit dem Eis aber die
01:45Klimaerwärmung bringt natürlich mit sich dass sich das immer ein bisschen löst oder und wir hatten
01:52schon vor 100 Jahren hatten wir Steinschlag in diesem Gebiet
02:07if climate change is going on there will be more of that type of incidents happening all over and
02:16maybe one day we even have to abandon certain valleys certain villages because it's still it's becoming
02:24impossible to live there or the measures you would need to take to still protect the infrastructure is
02:31so expensive it the the efforts are so big that it's not worthwhile anymore to live there
02:46warmer air masses can transport more humidity so we need to anticipate that thunderstorms can become
02:53more intense more extreme in warmer climate in addition to warm temperatures they do not only melt glaciers
03:00they also help to thaw permafrost and as we know in the mountains and in the unconsolidated debris
03:07there is lots of ice and once that this ice is melting it acts like a cement
03:30guys Michaels
03:30Wonderful
03:30Thanks to the Lord
03:31Okay.
03:31You
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