Some mountain climbers got the scare of their life when a huge, tabular boulder came flying down the mountain and barely missed striking the cameraman and then another person. It occurred at the base camp for Spantik, a mountain in the Spantik-Sosbun Mountains of Northern Pakistan. Fair warning: there is a (well justified) expletive in there. Try watching it at 1/4 speed to really see what’s happening.
A landslide in Yosemite National Park on Wednesday damaged three cars in the parking lot of the Ahwahnee Hotel and left rocks, one the size of two SUV’s in the parking lot. Park officials evacuated […]
More videos! French Company G.T.S. has posted some great videos on rockfall protection systems on their YouTube channel. I don’t speak French, so I can’t give you any more info on the company (although their website looks like it has plenty of info!). But the videos cover the preparation of, drilling for, and installation or rockfall protection fences and barriers as well as a couple of general rockfall ones. They just have video with background music, so no worries about a language barrier. You can watch the installation video below.
Sumner Road in Christchurch, New Zealand is a critical infrastructure link between Christchurch, the Port of Lyttleton, and the communities of Sumner and Lyttelton. It was severely damaged in the 2010-2011 earthquakes that struck the […]
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