46 million cubic meters of earth and snow smashing down in a matter of seconds

Early in the morning on Saturday Jan 9th 1965 an enormous landslide crashed into the Nicolum Creek, whipping out more than 3km of the Hope-Princeton Highway Said to have been caused by a small earthquake the hope slide a was sum of a massive 46 million cubic meters of earth, rock and snow smashing down in a matter of seconds from the over 2000 meter high mountain it came from. Filling the bottom of the valley with 70 meters deep. Outram Lake at the foot of the mountain was completely buried sending the water and soft clay from the lake bed were shot violently up the mountain on the opposite side of the valley spreading to a south-east direction sweeping away everything in its path.

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[DwadTourKw]

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[bmckwang]

Riveting. Looks like a cool place to visit.