As mountains break apart at snow-packed seams,
They spew their powdered cargo without care;
Destroying life with frozen, hoary streams,
Their mass and scope now tied to warming air.
 
The wounds of every broken, shattered limb,
Reduces what was pure to something grim;
The sound of snowflakes falling in the spring,
A warning of the loss the floods will bring.
An avalanche on Mount Everest (Photo Credit: Ilan Adler).
This is a heroic Rispetto, inspired by recent research which has shown how global warming increases the risks of avalanches.
Avalanches are rapid movements of large masses of snow, which commonly occur in mountainous regions and that can be triggered by