Neither Maggi nor any of his colleagues have been able to visit the site in person because of the risk of further ice falls, as well as the ongoing police investigation. But the communiqué they issued at the end of their conference offers perhaps the clearest picture to emerge so far of the physical processes behind the collapse.
It identifies a number of contributing factors—the steepness of the slope beneath the secondary, Punta Rocca, peak the ice broke off from; the fact that this section of ice had shrunk so far that it had become separated from the main body of the
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