Planpincieux glacier on Italy's Mont Blanc mountain rage is threatening to collapse at any moment, sparking evacuations and road closures in the area.
About 8.8 million cubic feet of ice is at risk of collapse from the glacier, according to The Associated Press. The glacier has recently been moving about 20 inches per day, due to a fissure caused by higher-than usual summer temperatures in Europe. Experts are unable to predict exactly when the ice will break away.
"This phenomenon once again testifies that the mountain is in a phase of strong change due to climatic factors, therefore it is particularly vulnerable," Courmayeur mayor Stefano Miserocchi said in a statement, The Guardian reported.
Miserocchi shut down a mountain road and banned access to part of a popular hiking area on the southern side of the Mont Blanc massif, The Washington Post reported. Most of the homes in the area are summer homes, and no residents in the town have been evacuated, though tourists have been banned from the dangerous area.
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Authorities installed a radar system on Wednesday to monitor the glacier.
In August, Iceland mourned the death of Okjokull Glacier with a funeral, which has been declared the first glacier to lose its glacier status to climate change. A similar event was held in September at Switzerland's Pizol Glacier, which also recently lost its glacier status.
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