Giant Ice Glacier Falls Apart

World | March 16, 2004, Tuesday // 00:00

A giant natural ice beauty - the Perito Moreno glacier - has started to fall apart. Giant blocks of ice sheered off a wall of the glacier, collapsing with a roar into a Patagonian lake - a spectacle unseen in 16 years. The 3,000-year-old glacier known as the "White Giant" is one of Argentina's leading tourist attractions and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The glacier forms a natural ice dam spanning part of the lake. But water pressure had been building in recent weeks, forcing a large section of ice to collapse.

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