This photo was taken one week after a chunk of rock of approx. 1 million cubic metres had detached from the S peak of Fluchthorn (central background), reducing the summit elevation from 3399 m to 3380 m. The rock avalanche impacted a damp area with some small lakes (hidden behind the moraine ridge in the centre of the picture), resulting in a splash of debris and water reaching the Furtschöl valley, impounding a lake and producing a debris flow downstream. The event caused no significant damage.
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- on Sunday 18 June 2023 by Martin Mergili
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- alpine vegetation, debris flow, fluvial processes, glacial processes, high-mountain ecosystems, lake, landslide, landslide dam, mountainscape, mountaintop, rock avalanche, snowscape, Zonobiome VI
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