Skiing, are there still queues on the slopes of Val d’Aosta? The case of the Cervinia webcam and the images of the darkened square

You see the snowy mountains, the track just beat and the chairlift. But piazzale In front of the beginning of the plants it darkens, covered by the so-called “pixelation”, practically hidden. This is what happened yesterday, Tuesday, December 8, looking at the images transmitted by the webcam of House plan, in the ski area of Cervinia, in Val d’Aosta. Scrolling back the images from the same webcam, it turns out that a few days before, Thursday, December 3, that square looked very good. And from 8:30 in the morning onwards it started populate with skiers, as usual more numerous, queuing for get on the chairlift and start the day of skiing. An image records while the Val d’Aosta region was still in Red zone: then, however, the square was no longer visible until today (Wednesday 9th), when the webcam seems to work properly again.

Discover the strange behavior of the webcam was the newspaper The impression, who tried to ask the Matterhorn Spa: “I don’t know what they are talking about,” responded the president and administrators Matteo zanetti, which pointed to “wind” as a possible cause, also speaking of “attempted exploitation.” About the queues that the webcam picked up in the first days of December, Zanetti replied to the Turin newspaper: “It’s not no meeting. We are scanning the entire area and we are safe. If there were people at the beginning of the chairlift, they were Athletes“.

The government Dpcm in fact allows the use of plants “only for professional athletes “. Skiers amateur Instead, they will have to wait at least for January 7, when the green light should arrive for all, subject, however, to the adoption of a protocol by the Regions.

The same Regions that have so far made sure to guarantee skiing safely, without crowds. Images (partial) from Cervinia seem to show that the situation may become critical even only with the presence of athletes, according to those who manage the facilities. Among other things, photos and videos of Cervinia had arrived at the end of October and had gone around the world, because they showed the crowd on the cable car and the long tails in Valtournenche for the first opening day.