bergfall

A great bergfall from the Monte Pezza – or rather two successive bergfalls – caused all this ruin, and created all this beauty.

Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys 1873

In another, we saw a magnificent colossal hawk upright on his pedestal in the midst of a bergfall of ruins.

A Thousand Miles Up the Nile 1891

I have told the story of this little expedition out of its due place, in order to bring under one head all that I succeeded in gleaning at various times about the great bergfall of 1771.

Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys 1873

Between the small wayside hamlets of Vodo and Borca, the road is cut through an enormous slope of stony débris, the scene of a bergfall which fell from the Antelao in 1816, and overwhelmed two villages on the opposite bank of the Boita.

Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys 1873

More sudden, and almost more cruel, than the lava from Vesuvius, it came down, as almost every bergfall comes down, at dead of night, crushing the sleepers in their beds and leaving not a moment for escape.

Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys 1873

The good Doctor when he wrote this had evidently never visited the scene of the great bergfall in the gorge of Serravalle, or seen the basin of the Piave at Capo di Ponte.

Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys 1873

Skirting the borders of the lake, we draw nearer every moment to the lower cliffs of the Civita, and arrive at the scene of the great bergfall of 1771; – a wilderness of fallen rocks, like the battle-ground of the Titans.

Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys 1873

Presently, being now about four miles from Serravalle, and the top of the great bergfall not yet reached, we come upon another little green, clear lake, about the size of the last – the Lago Morto.

Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys 1873

The stony path now leads out upon a wild and desolate mule-track skirting the grim flanks of Monte Fernazza – a gruesome mountain whose low black precipices have crashed down before now in many a bergfall, covering the barren slopes with shattered débris and huge purply blocks all blistered over with poisonous-looking lichens.

Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys 1873

It could not have been a bergfall; for the mountain slopes above are all grassy Alp, and the very summit of Monte Migion is a space of level pasture.

Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys 1873