Calamity Tours

From the NYTimes via Reuters: "Swiss Hostel Offers View of Crumbling Peak as Glacier Retreat"

Hansruedi Burgener has welcomed up to 800 people a day — twice the average number of visitors — to his remote mountain hostel in the Alps this summer.

They all hope to watch a rock the size of two Empire State Buildings collapse onto the canyon floor, about 650 feet below, as retreating glacier ice robs a cliff face on the eastern edge of a mountain, the Eiger, of its main support. ...

Accessible only by a steep hike of more than an hour, Mr. Burgener’s place offers a safe view of the crumbling rock, plus cold beer and other refreshments.

Sounds kinda like The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Well, at least somebody's making money off it.