Climate change likely cause of freak avalanches

Two vast ice avalanches that instantly changed the shape of a region in Tibet are being blamed on rising temperaturesFor thousands of years the ice-capped Aru mountain range in western Tibet has been a steady presence, but this year, two vast ice avalanches changed the shape of the region in an instant. The first, which occurred without warning on 17 July, sent 60m cubic metres (24,000 olympic swimming pools) of ice and rock tearing down a narrow valley in Rutog county, killing nine herders and