TRIOLET

 

Event description

 

An enormous collapse of rock and ice (16-20 mio m3, the biggest known in Mont Blanc massif) covered a distance of 7.2 km and a total difference in altitude of 1860 m in less than 4 minutes. The detaching occurred from Aiguille de l'Eboulement (the name is derived just from this event); the avalanche run on Triolet glacier and then stopped in the below Val Ferret (1740 m). Sweeping away Ameiron and Trioley huts, the avalanche killed 7 (or 4, according to other sources) persons (herdsmen) and 120 cows.

 

Damage

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Sweeping away Ameiron and Trioley huts, the avalanche killed 7 (or 4, according to other sources) persons (herdsmen) and 120 cows.

 

Data source

 

- http://www.nimbus.it/glaciorisk/Glacier_view.asp?IdGlacier=1444&Vista=rischio&Paese=&IdTipoRischio=9

 

Remarks