Collapse of a mountain peak in Austria amid thawing permafrost triggers a huge rockfall

Part of the summit of a mountain in the Austrian state of Tyrol has collapsed, sending more than 100,000 cubic meters of rock crashing into the valley below and triggering mudslides.

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