glassgowkiss Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Interesting viewing: Pics Before and after Looks like a few routes were just taken out. Check out a huge new roof! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobo Posted November 1, 2011 Share Posted November 1, 2011 And here I thought this was gonna be about G-spotter trundling some shit... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canadug Posted November 1, 2011 Share Posted November 1, 2011 Bummed as I also thought it would be trundling pix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_b Posted November 1, 2011 Share Posted November 1, 2011 Climate influence on rockfalls in high-Alpine steep rockwalls: The north side of the Aiguilles de Chamonix (Mont Blanc massif) since the end of the ‘Little Ice Age’ Ludovic Ravanel Université de Savoie, France, Ludovic.Ravanel@univ-savoie.fr Philip Deline Université de Savoie, France Abstract Rockfalls fundamentally affect the morphodynamics of high mountain rockwalls, and represent a great danger for both people and infrastructures, but still are poorly known. By comparing old, recent and new photographs, in addition to geomorphological field data, we propose an inventory of the rockfalls that occurred since the end of the ‘Little Ice Age’ on the north side of the Aiguilles de Chamonix (Mont Blanc massif), ranging in volume from 500 to 65 000 m 3. These 42 rockfalls occurred after 1947, of which > 70% during the last two decades, with a maximal frequency during the warm summers, especially in 2003. Average elevation of scars (3130 m a.s.l.) close to the lower modelled permafrost limit, and the topography (e.g. spurs) of the affected rock faces enhancing lateral heat fluxes, suggest that a climatically driven permafrost degradation has triggered many of the recent rockfalls in high-Alpine steep rockwalls. http://hol.sagepub.com/content/21/2/357.abstract Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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