Photographer Left In Awe As Humongous Hanging Alpine Glacier Collapses
Photographer Juergen Merz captured the moment of a lifetime last week in Switzerland.
Check out Merz's footage of a huge section of the Tschierva Glacier violently collapsing to the valley floor below:
Juergen Merz: "Yesterday I witnessed how a huge part of a hanging glacier of the Tschiervaglacier in Switzerland collapsed. While I was filming the leftovers from a smaller avalanche suddenly a huge piece broke of and created this avalanche. It shows the raw power of nature."
The amount of energy released in that slide/collapse is breathtaking.
The Tschierva Glacier rests on Piz Tschierva, a 11,634 ft. mountain in the Bernina Range of the Swiss Alps. The glacier has melted significantly over the last 50 years.
The glacier had a surface area of 6.2 square kilometers in 1973. It currently has a surface area of about 3.9 square kilometers.
The Tschierva is one of 1,400 glaciers in Switzerland.
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