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New York Times: Marco Bomio recalls that bright Sunday morning in June 2006 as if it were yesterday. Mr. Bomio, 59, a school principal and mountain guide, attended a religious service on a high mountain meadow to mark the founding of a local guide group. “Suddenly we saw this immense cloud,” he said over coffee in a wood chalet typical of this Alpine village. “Normally, it might have been snow. But in June?” “Then we saw that it wasn’t snow,” he went on. “It was rock dust: part of the mountain had come down.”......
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As Glaciers Melt, Alpine Mountains Lose Their Glue, Threatening Swiss Village
Posted by New York Times: John Tagliabue on May 30th, 2013
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