an impressive landslide in Haute-Savoie

Tuesday, September 10, in the middle of the day, a hiker films an impressive landslide. He is then high in the mountains an hour’s walk from Vallorcine in Haute-Savoie. Before his eyes, enormous blocks of rock. Some weighing more than 200 tons, roll down the slope. They crash below. In a few minutes, a significant quantity of rock has broken away. It is the largest landslide in the Mont Blanc massif since the beginning of the year.

Last weekend, already in the Pyrenees, rockfalls cut off a road in the Aspe Valley. After heavy rains in Maurienne last year, several thousand tons of rock collapsed onto a motorway and a railway line. These phenomena seem to be becoming more and more frequent and some are linked to global warming.