Karmadon Gorge
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| location | North Ossetia ( Russia ) | |
| Mountains | Greater Caucasus | |
| Geographical location | 42 ° 51 '23 " N , 44 ° 31' 25" E | |
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The Karmadon Gorge ( Russian Кармадонское ущелье ) is located in the Russian North Ossetia on the northern slope of the Greater Caucasus at an altitude of 750 to 1200 m . It is a recreational area in the North Ossetian capital of Vladikavkaz . On September 20, 2002, it was the scene of an avalanche accident in which 125 people died.
The name Karmadon means "warm water" and refers to the warm springs in the gorge. It is a popular weekend destination for the residents of the North Ossetian capital and especially popular with day trippers, mountain hikers and campers . The Gisel-Karmadon-Landstrasse leads through the gorge .
Avalanche accident
In the avalanche accident in September 2002, the Russian actor and director Sergei Sergejewitsch Bodrov and his film team died. Under the peak of Dschimarai-Choch in Kasbek -Gebirgsmassiv an ice and landslide (had glacial avalanche ) and raced at 100 km / h, Kolka Glacier ( ⊙ ) and the Genaldon valley down. Along the way it carried glacier ice, trees and mud with it, and only after 32 kilometers did it come to rest at the entrance to the Karmadon Gorge with around 80 million cubic meters of ice, snow and rubble. She buried the mountain village of Nizhny Karmadon under her.
The upper part of the gorge has since been transformed into a glacier plain. A bypass road had to be built for the motorway. In September 2003 , a six-meter-high memorial was erected in the lower part of the gorge to commemorate the victims of the avalanche accident. It shows a young man trying to escape the bonds of the ice.
literature
- W. Haeberli, C. Huggel, A. Kääb, S. Oswald, A. Polkvoj, I. Zotikov, N. Osokin: The Kolka-Karmadon rock / ice slide of 20 September 2002 - an extraordinary event of historical dimensions in North Ossetia (Russian Caucasus) . In: J. Glaciol. inpress 2005