Beware of moving mountains

[olyclimber]

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/13/12722446-5-mile-long-landslide-in-alaska-national-park-warming-eyed-as-possible-culprit?lite

 

they're coming unglued with warming temps

[G-spotter]

4 missing, presumed dead in BC

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/07/13/bc-landslide-search-johnsons-landing.html

[rob]

[rob]

really cool presentation on the slide:

 

http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/ftp/RNI/external/outgoing/Marten%20Geertsema/landslide%20papers/11%20June%202012%20Lituya%20Mountain%20rock%20avalanche.pdf

 

 

[Buckshot]

So much for wearing an avy beacon in that one.

[burchey]

Nice .pdf file - I remember seeing a video of a semi-recent rock/ice slide on the Nisqually, couple weeks after I had been on it...rock ran down the mountain like some kind of scary river. It was about 1 millionth the size of this, can't imagine being anywhere nearby at the time of the slide.

[Bigtree]

How interesting. I just finished reading a book called Coming Home by Alaskan author Lynn Schooler. He tried to circumnavigate Mt. Fairweather starting from Lituya Bay - the site of the worlds largest tsunami. Very good read. Lots of local historical information. No surprise the area remains so geologically active.

[cascadesdj]

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/13/12722446-5-mile-long-landslide-in-alaska-national-park-warming-eyed-as-possible-culprit?lite

 

they're coming unglued with warming temps

 

There's no global warming, just ask a republican.

[denalidave]

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/13/12722446-5-mile-long-landslide-in-alaska-national-park-warming-eyed-as-possible-culprit?lite

 

they're coming unglued with warming temps

 

There's no global warming, just ask a republican.

[obwan]

4 missing, presumed dead in BC

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/07/13/bc-landslide-search-johnsons-landing.html

What a bummer - to young to die, and very sad. God Bless.

[Don_Serl]

awesome slide off Lituya, but it'd be a stretch to blame global warming. let's see:

 

Ice Valley, 1997, 5km x 1km (see page 180, The Waddington Guide):

 

 

 

Hope Slide, Jan 1965

 

 

 

 

Huascaran, May 1970

 

 

 

 

Frank Slide, 1903:

 

 

 

 

etc, etc...

Edited July 15, 2012 by Don_Serl