Landslides in Cold Regions in the Context of Climate Change

Catastrophic slope failures that occur in glaciated zones of mountain ranges at high altitudes can be considered as landslides in cold regions, since ice plays an important role in their origination and emplacement. Case studies of the XX Century rock avalanche that fell onto the glacier and of the extraordinary prehistoric ice-rock avalanche are described briefly. They demonstrate that presence of large quantities of ice in the glaciated zones of high mountains results in significant masking of the origin of debris accumulations that could be found either on glaciers or at the feet of heavily glaciated slopes.