At Least 7 Hikers Dead After Glacier Collapse in Italy Amid Record Heat

‘Its Disappearance Approaches Ever Closer’

People look at the glacier on Marmolada on July 4. Photo: Luca Bruno (AP)

“Its disappearance approaches ever closer,” Aldino Bondesan, a glaciologist at Padua University, told The Independent of the glacier in 2020. “It may have no more than 15 years of life left.”

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