A huge landslide thundered into the valley at Piz Bernina (4048 meters) in the border area between Switzerland and Italy. Helicopters went up to search for the buried victims.
The tongue of the huge ice and stone avalanche is five kilometers long. The huge amounts of rock, which had mixed with glacier ice, rolled over a rocky edge into the depths and poured over the high valley of Val Roseg. The mountain range on the border between the Swiss canton of Graubünden and the Italian province of Lombardy is a legend among mountaineers. It has several secondary peaks, one of which is the Piz Scerscen (3970 meters), the direct southwestern neighbor of the P Iz Bernina.. According to the Bernina section of the Swiss Alpine Club SAC, the landslide has a volume of more than a million cubic meters of rock. The avalanche led to the closure of the lower ascent route from the Tschiervahütte to the busy Piz Roseg on the busy Egrat glacier.