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The glacier, in the Marmolada range, is the largest in the Dolomite mountains in northeastern Italy and people ski there in the winter. But the glacier has been rapidly melting away in recent years.
Disaster strikes one day after record-high temperature of 10 degrees Celsius recorded at the glacier's summit.
The area has been identified by U.N. experts as a ‘climate change hot spot’
The glacier, in the Marmolada range, is the largest in the Dolomite mountains in northeastern Italy and people ski there in the winter. But the glacier has been rapidly melting away in recent years.
Rome, Jul 4 (EFE).- At least 20 hikers have gone missing after a chunk of an Alpine glacier detached and slid down the Marmolada mountain in the Italian Alps, claiming the lives of six people and injuring another nine, sources from the Alpine Rescue Service said Monday. Rescuers have resumed the search for the missing …