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An article in today's Sunday Times says that a 650ft high chunk of limestone ( 2m cubic meters ) is threatening to break away from the Eigar after a 16ft crack was discovered at the start of June. It has been casued by the retreat of the Grindelwald glacier...
Story here - eiger collapse
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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GrahamN, your calculations are wrong, 2M cubic meters is 1,333 times larger than 1,500 cubic meters
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D G Orf, true  ...but it is Monday morning!
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Had a look on the Grindelwald website (only in German apparently), but nothing in the news, and nothing revealed in a search for "Eiger Nordwand". 
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I don't think it's the North face that's about to come tumbling down, I suspect it's a section between the Eiger and the Wetterhorn which may well fall into the valley of the Grindelwald Glacier where the river starts from
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D G Orf, Ah - so the original artical was slightly misleading then? I know it didn't say North Face, but it did imply it. Either way, there's nothing on the website about it. You'd have thought some enterprising Swiss in the town would have set up a webcam and a website wouldn't you - can't find one though.
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That Grauniad piece riverman linked to says it's on the East Face, and widening at 75 cm per day (as of Friday).
(So it's probably on the West face and widening at 75mm per fortnight).
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telford_mike, Interesting... I was cycling down the road that must be mostly the Scheidegg-Brandegg piste in winter Thursday afternoon... Didn't get to see a thing (or hear for that matter)
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Wow. 
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Poster: A snowHead
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New thread - when standing at the bottom, indulging in rockfall watching - how many of you wear a helmet?
Would you watch with someone who doesn't wear a helmet?
Should helmets be made compulsary?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Scarpa,
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| A small rockfall, apparently the rocks in these small rockfalls are ONLY the size of 40 ton trucks |
It would have to be a bloddy big helmet 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Apparently the mirrors I mentioned above were fixed by a chap hanging under a helicopter, another chap on the opposite slope was watching out for rocks falling from above and was in contact with the pilot, any rockfalls and the pilot was instructed to pull away...... really quickly
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Just saw the rockfall in the news. Very impressive!
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D G Orf, great photos btw, keep 'em coming. 
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Nothing seems to be happening at the moment
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D G Orf, any idea how big the rockfall in that last picture is?
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stocky, I believe it was arround 700,000 cubic meters
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This is from 20minutes newspaper in Bern
javascript:void(window.open('http://www.20min.ch/diashow/diashow.tmpl?showid=8291', 'Diashow', 'width=730,height=650'));
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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The Swiss government’s Environment Office has drawn up a list of towns and villages most at threat from Switzerland’s crumbling mountains. The list includes Zermatt, Saas Balen near Saas Fee, Kandersteg and St Moritz.
As well as rockslides caused by rising temperatures, melting glaciers and permafrost, which holds land together above 2300m, other risks include melt water floods and rock falls in to reservoirs sending mini tsunamis over the tops of dams and on to the valleys below.
For more info: www.saveoursnow.com
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You know it makes sense.
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