The second part of this episode goes directly into the interior of the Zugspitze: • Zugspitze: is a gigantic mountain looming? The #Eibsee in Bavaria is one of the tourist hotspots in Germany. Every year millions of people visit the famous lake to hike at the foot of the #Zugspitze and take the perfect Instagram photo against a picturesque backdrop. And who would be surprised: the crystal-clear water and the small stones and islands really do look idyllic. It is not for nothing that the Eibsee is also called the “German Caribbean”. ???? But appearances are deceptive. Because what most tourists and Instagrammers do not know: The “most beautiful lake in Germany” hides a dark secret. In this episode of #TerraXplore, Jasmina Neudecker wants to find out what is behind it and, in her search for clues, discovers what the islands of the Eibsee are really made of: Together with a geologist, she examines the rocks and delves into the lake's dark past. Could the answer to the secret of Lake Eibsee not be found beneath the water’s surface, but right at the top of the Zugspitze?! ******* You can also find more videos from the Terra X cosmos in the media library: http://kurz.zdf.de/XploreOL/ Terra X on Facebook: / zdfterrax Terra X on Instagram: / terrax ******* OUR SOURCES: ???? Research on the landslide at Eibsee: Knapp, Sybille et al: Impact of an 0.2 km³ Rock Avalanche on Lake Eibsee (Bavarian Alps, Germany), in: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms (2021), Volume 46, Issue 1, 296 – 319 Part I : https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1... Part II: https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5025 ???? Bavarian State Office for the Environment (LfU): Eibsee-Bergsturz W von Grainau (2021) https://www.umweltatlas.bayern.de/map... ???? Hornung, Thomas; Haas, Ulrich: Explanations to the Geological Map 1: 25 000, 8531/8631 Zugspitze (2017), p. 99 ff https://www.bestellen.bayern.de/appli...) ???? Jerz, Hermann; by Poschinger, Andreas: Newer results on the Eibsee-Grainau landslide, in: Geologica Bavarica (1995) Issue 99, 383–398 https://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.... https://www.bestellen.bayern.de/shopl... MORE INFORMATION: ????“Rare landslide on the Zugspitze 3,750 years ago - most important trade route of the Bronze Age almost buried”, Bavarian State Office for the Environment (LfU) https://www.lfu.bayern.de/pressemitte... ????“Zugspitze was possibly once a three-thousand-meter peak”, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 27, 2018 https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/ge... ????“Like an atom bomb - researcher makes astonishing discovery about the Zugspitze”, in: Der Merkur, by Josef Hornsteiner, June 27, 2018 https://www.merkur.de/lokales/garmisc... ******* IN THE VIDEO Bernhard Wagner: Geologist, Bavarian State Office for the Environment (LfU) ******* CREDITS Author: Kristina Graß Director: Stephan Arapovic Camera: Martin Gasch, Benjamin Glitschka Sound: Franziska Busl Editing: Patryk Puchalski Graphics: Marc Trompetter Editors: Lukas Bruns, Tobias Schultes, Christiane Götz-Sobel Production: Sybille Scharn, Florian Rehm ******* For Terra Xplore, biologist Jasmina Neudecker gets to the bottom of the big and small questions in your life and discovers exciting topics from the areas of psyche and consciousness, health and nutrition, technology and digitization, the environment and sustainability. In every episode, she is on the move. Sometimes in the city, sometimes in nature – but in any case wherever science touches us.