French engineers drain Mont Blanc lake

Engineers are draining an immense lake that has built up under an glacier on Mont Blanc hoping to prevent a repeat of a flood that killed 175 people more than 100 years ago.

Engineers are draining an immense lake that has built up under an glacier on Mont Blanc hoping to prevent a repeat of a flood that killed 175 people more than 100 years ago.

Specialists are drilling into the glacier as part of preparations to slowly pump out the 2,275,000 cubic feet of liquid believed trapped beneath the Tete Rousse glacier.

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