Courmayeur evacuated as huge chunk of ice threatens to break away

An Italian resort in the Alps remained on high alert on Friday over fears a massive glacier could collapse due to high temperatures.

The glacier is “the size of Milan cathedral or a football pitch covered in ice 80 metres (260 feet) thick” according to an official. It could break free of its perch about 2,600 to 2,800 metres above sea level.

Euronews

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