Massive rockfall caught on camera
Photos of 12000m3 of rock tumbling down the mountainside

The Dru has been slimming down again as it shed 12000m3 of granite in a series of 3 impressive rockfalls this weekend, captured on camera by Julien Malbert.

The first rockfall happened around 3:40pm yesterday afternoon, followed by another one at 10:20am this morning and a 3rd at 1:15pm this afternoon (the photos shown are of the 3rd rockfall).

The Dru has a lighter grey patch down one side of it from when a huge chunk fell off back in 2005. This weekend's rock fall is apparently due partly to a rebalancing after-effect of the 2005 incident and partly to a deepening of the active layer of permafrost because of high temperatures we have been enjoying recently.

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