3 days of cliff landslide all caught on camera at Pentreath, Lizard, Cornwall

Two days of gradual failure of the cliff after heavy rain and flooding followed by a final large collapse on the third day at Pentreath on the Lizard, Cornwall, UK.

[@johnnywadd9918]

I didnt find anything funny about that ...i dont understand the laughter.

[@janefield2143]

I wish they would would shut up laughing

[@krashunburn]

Amazing! Absolutely amazing. Not the slides, but that those watching are actually laughing as their country slides into the ocean!

[@Mounhas]

Brexit caused the U.K. to slide into oblivion!

[@hollyfleur6144]

i'm sorry for you because you can't FEEL the thrill of seeing something of this magnitude.

[@willboudreau1187]

Note to future viewers: this video is MUCH more enjoyable if you turn the volume off.

[@delfine7163]

Thank you, Mr Boudreau! Good idea!

[@keithmcfaul9204]

I guess I fail to see what is so funny to laugh about like you and your friends!

[@sagemaster3408]

Just having fun. I don’t think they think it’s funny. I fail to see humor in it also. They’re just excited

[@Kharnellius]

You've never heard a kid giggle with joy before?

[@dontaskme7004]

The spectacle of nature, like anything in nature, it creates a sense of wonder in the mind... People have similar reactions to animals doing things, a double rainbow, lightning striking close to them, massive waves, all kinds of things trigger a reaction.

[@susanwachtman6140]

I don't get why this is so hysterical. I find it rather sad.

[@lelandlewis7207]

Amazing happening but hard to watch with the camera swinging up and down. Once we see where it's going, just showing the main collapse or zooming out a bit would have been nice. Great and amazing capture though.

[@pamt7740]

Normal earth changes. This is how coastlines develop and change down centuries. Awesome to watch them change so dramatically. It's happening so fast these days all over the world.

[@ElenaAshe]

It seems to be happening so fast these days because everyone has a phone to record the events.

[@ILoveBluePeople]

@@ElenaAshe facts, these are common even without phones

[@sammy4538]

What a sight that must have been, seeing this happen right in front of own eyes... amazing material, huge respect for being there filming all this, and sharing!

[@jam1966ful]

Fascinating. Thank you for taking the time to film this for us.

[@richardnailhistorical3445]

Isn't it amazing how some people get such a thrill out of landslides, to them it's better than SNL? What is it they find so hilarious about landslides? I can't understand what is so funny?

[@1133811]

I don’t see why this giggling man is so amused by the destruction of natural landscape.

[@dontaskme7004]

It's pretty much the same as watching an underwater volcanoe forming new land, the wonder of nature... What do you do, cry because nature did something without your permission?

[@davidfox3258]

Because the natural landscape is constantly changing. That's how it works.

[@cheryldidur2300]

How awesome to be there and watch this as it happened. The Earth is always in a state of change.

[@cyndiknapp4904]

I have to ask...why does this catastrophe inspire laughter...?

[@buccaneernl1]

Absolutely fascinating. Thank you for filming and sharing.

[@phph1731]

Great to see the geomorphological processes at work that shape our coast and landscape. Thanks for documenting a lively period.

[@Radionut]

Did you by chance take a few hits of the laughing gas before you went out there? You got a big giggle and laugh out of it that’s for sure. That was very spectacular

[@veramae4098]

A local golf course was partly on a hill by Lake Michigan. The course wanted to improve the view for golfers so asked permission from Michigan's environmental agency to cut down all the trees on the slope. No. A year later the course cut down all the trees anyhow. Two years after that most of the damn hill and golf course slid down into Lake Michigan.

[@bighaasfly]

That was both amazing and fascinating! Thank you for sharing it.

[@crabby7668]

The first bit looked like a concrete pour. Fascinating to see this all happen" live". Thanks for sharing

[@roymagnus827]

Interesting. But could have done without the demented cackling.

[@RoxnDox]

Hmm, you wouldn’t catch me at the bottom of a slope that is actively dumping a debris flow right at your feet. What happens if the slope loss suddenly doubles? You become part of the debris flow...

[@nigelwyn]

Exactly my thoughts.

[@ROKINKO11]

Thank you for sharing. Exciting video! Cheers!

[@amazingseniors5770]

Whats funny? If you're buried there, can you still laugh?

[@hellybelle5]

That was amazing! Thanks for sharing 😊 It was incredible that from such a small area, there were such distinctly different layers of rocks 😊

[@itsjudystube]

The wonder of nature. How privileged to witness that in person and how generous to share it.

[@billrobbins5874]

Happy you survived it. Would have worried if the ground underneath your feet could have slid too. That was massive!

[@Sally4th_]

Amazing to watch, thankyou. Well done for capturing the final collapse.

[@nigelsmith721]

Clearly the best comedian on KZbin.

[@keegan773]

That’s the power of nature, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

[@mikeoglen6848]

I can't believe you find this so hilarious when Cornwall is literally crumbling into the sea..

[@dontaskme7004]

I'm sure you thought you had a point, but just like a rotten tree breaking apart, it's nature doing its thing and nothing to cry about. There's places that crumble into the sea, there's places where new land is formed. There's places that used to be below seal level that are now above and places that used to be above sea level that are now below... Embrace the things that are beyond your control because there's absolutely nothing you can do about it.

[@mikeoglen6848]

@@dontaskme7004 My 'point' is about a Fool, not about the Forces of Nature. Who asked you to comment?

[@hollyfleur6144]

@@mikeoglen6848 anyone can comment without permission.

[@mikeoglen6848]

@@hollyfleur6144 I don't deny it. Any Idiot can make a comment, sure...

[@AvanaVana]

Great video. Traditionally, geology teaches “uniformitarianism”, that is, geological change happens very slowly and constantly, the same way over long periods of time. But these days it’s becoming clearer that landscape change is effected by punctuated equilibria, that most of the change we see and a lot of the geological record is created very quickly, in comparatively rare, but massive events, that are part of a continuum of events logarithmically scaled from the most frequent and smallest events, to the rarest, most massive events. Most of the change in a landscape is created during just a few high flux events, interspersed with long periods of time in more of an equilibrium state, where relatively little is happening. Valleys are formed this way, not by a grain of sand every second for a million years, but by 100 year floods, massive landslides, and other highly erosive and dramatic events, that happen every once in a while, over that same timespan.

[@mattholyer1899]

Thanks. I'm happy to be corrected but I understood that uniformitarianism has a broader definition than that, "the present is the key to the past"; therefore it's not just a theory describing minute changes over long periods of time but also any large sudden changes we might expect to see today (including once in 1,000 year event's) or in the geological record. But I 100% agree with you that the geological record is by it's very nature biased towards major high energy events that will easily overwrite the day to day "mundane", as simply shown by the Hjulström curve for water flow rate. The theory of uniformitarianism gets stretched very thin when looking as far back as Precambrian time's though, as a hotter mantle, shorter day's and no land plants make for some excitingly different event's! But the same law's of physics apply, so long as you correct for the differences I'd say the theory still stands true, even back then?

[@AvanaVana]

@@mattholyer1899 I think there are different levels of 'uniformity' that people subscribe to. I really just wanted to make the simple point that the geological record and the landscape are both more affected by these large-scale rare events than by the kind of day-to-day effects of time.

[@skipd9164]

In millions of years when earth is mostly hills it will end. I know I won't be there

[@virginiaviola5097]

We are definitely in the process of witnessing a huge shift of some sort, what that may ultimately be only time will tell, but it’s certainly gaining in momentum. The real surprise is just how long the period of relative stability has been.

[@Kharnellius]

@@virginiaviola5097 Or....everyone has an HD camera attached to their phone now so it can be easily documented and with the internet, easily shared.

[@dsnicker9719]

Get rid of the "laughing guy". He is ridiculous, and ruined it all.

[@moonectar]

Let him laugh in delight, it's a healthy response, he's happy and alive.

[@itsjudystube7439]

Not for everyone

[@johnhenshaw7655]

It’s incredible to see

[@amykins9870]

He’s awe struck you are selfish and well centered. I turned down my volume

[@alphi888]

I agree with ph ph, Thanks for recording it and sharing, but PLEASE edit the inane soundtrack, it's juvenile in the extreme.

[@Jowenator]

Your enthusiasm is very contagious!!

[@Don.Challenger]

Yes, it did seem to bring the house down

[@lorenzotrevisani4421]

When we ask ourselves,how did it happen. Well this is the answer. Forse of nature. Nice video. 👍👏

[@gedungisphoopnuchle9121]

Thanks for sharing 👍

[@aoilpe]

I don’t think that a land loss at the seaside is as FUNNY as this...!

[@WarmDryHome]

Brilliant bit of filming - well done!!

[@kittykins4115]

Earth in constant motion, I am in awe, however the maniacal laughter was bizarre.

[@vanessaboman8143]

The different coloured dirt is beautiful to watch!

[@cmwHisArtist]

After a year of misery, people can’t even stand the sound of someone laughing in amazement. The mountains have been changing their shape since the beginning of time. Thank God no one lost a home or got hurt. And thank God at least these men can still laugh.☀️

[@PrairieDancerRose]

Please back up, so we may see it completely, at one time, instead of section by section.

[@davenorth8922]

There may not be a place behind them. They could be next if they aren't careful.

[@QUIX4U]

​@Dave BACK UP means take your finger OFF the "zoom-in" button, (as THAT is all we eventually got after the operator zoomed in & out way too many times before LEAVING IT "zoomed in too close" so that all we viewers get to see later - is a "tiny highlighted" blade of grass / or a pebble in high definition / or a few little grains of sand - & not the entire slip face "look") BACK UP - means get the camera OUT of "zoom" to allow us to have that BACK UP view, from the place you stood, a long way away from the cliff itself. BACK UP, doesn't mean to "walk backwards" with the camera still ZOOMED IN.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It also means - for goodness sake, stop wasting time watching the wee stream of mud & other crap - making it's messy river way - to the SEA.. It means - stay ON the main subject. LEAVE the camera OUT of any form of "zoom" and keep the daMned thing as steady as possible - on the entire SINGLE WIDE VIEW, to let us see the entire cliff, from top to bottom (not a tiny section here or there at ten times magnification (zoomed in) @Rose is absolutely correct - BACK UP (in other words, take your finger OFF the zoom in close button & let the camera itself BACK UP to a wide-open view.

[@themadfarmer5207]

Gosh there are people very cranky about position of filming and zooms etc. Wouldn't like to post a video and get so much criticisms. There can be no retakes of an event like this. What is done is done

[@stillwater62]

That looks like an endless flow of "No-Bake" cookie mixture while still hot.

[@rickseifert5139]

Naturall process of erosion going on since before humans and will continue long after humans are gone from this planet . Great video footage mate.

[@loldiers3238]

Humans find gravity endlessly entertaining.

[@denisonline51]

All the laughing ruined the video.

[@bettyprussia9777]

I totally agree!

[@itsjudystube]

You go around the coast, find a cliff fall and video it in silence. They chose to be natural. And Nervous or surprise laughter often comes from nerves.

[@gardeninginnorway478]

Once in a lifetime happening. Impressive!

[@mikehardwick352]

Less talking and laughter

[@grahambird1570]

Wow . . . . I can liken that to the efficiency of the UK Government !

[@romuco9872]

I think he’s excited and can’t express it any other way. Humans are an odd species.

[@salparadise8581]

clifftastic..thanks for posting

[@rondias6625]

The Earth has been doing this for millions of years.. awesome to see it happening and great video sharing it !! Now a shovel dust pan and broom should have it all back in order in no time..lol

[@goupigoupi6953]

Stop moving the damn camera all the time.

[@gayathrichandrashekar2778]

Nice to see Mother Nature changing her positions.

[@romeowhiskey1146]

I want this man to NARRATE my 4th of July FIREWORKS display.

[@gabegr8191]

That's a lot of Gold falling...Wow!!

[@lucielessard4429]

Shut! SVP et concentrez-vous sur la qualité de votre prise de vue qui fait défaut!

[@wez4517]

A very dramatic sight to be witnessed in the flesh but to giggle like schoolchildren whilst a section of the Cornish coast is destroyed? Very odd behaviour...

[@itsjudystube]

This is a natural occurrence. We are lucky to see it in action.

[@shirleythomas6377]

Nothing is being destroyed. It is being recreated in a different place. Nature does what it wants, no matter if humans understand it or not.

[@johnfrench6144]

Shame about the giggly girl nervous laughing

[@jaygunter3828]

Very cool, thanks for sharing.

[@butterball8894]

The land is shrinking let's all lol???

[@tadblackington1676]

I don't know if I would stand there to film that.

[@josephinebennington7247]

I do know I wouldn’t stand there to film that.

[@cathybenson5119]

I find it sad to see the cliffs collapsing like that. I don't think it's funny at all.

[@Peter-nv3wu]

Too right Cathy, he would probably have a fit of laughing i a tree if a tree fell on his neighbours home !

[@marcus123841]

Would you laugh if you house disappeared like many unfortunate people stood and watched there whole life fall into the sea ,shame on you

[@johnmudd6453]

I must gave missed the house disappearing , but this is. Just geology that's been going on for millions of years

[@vps1014]

Let's see who's laughing 10 or 20 years from now when the erosion reaches houses 100m to 200 metres away...

[@timthehippy9478]

no houses near this, it is before the right hand turn to Kynance cove, as the road goes right there is an old track that goes slightly left that takes you to this beach. Thousands of tourists go past this beach every year and very few know that it is there , locals love to surf there though.

[@themadfarmer5207]

Been happening for 1000s nay millions of years, but nobody had a camera

[@lindaandrews9245]

A bit more and the coastlines will need to be redrawn!

[@kernow..exp.]

Very interesting thanks for sharing

[@MonthlyFails]

Hey Matt Holyer, do you have an email address at which we could contact you regarding this video? We would be interested to discuss a license to use this video if this is generally possible? (i.e. via email) :) Cheers, Felix

[@mattholyer1899]

Hi Felix, could you reply with your email address and I'll respond to that👍 Thanks

[@MonthlyFails]

@@mattholyer1899 Hey Matt, yeah thats no problem at all! You can find our mail in our channels about section! :)

[@realalldway-raw4996]

It's sad that the world is ending and someone think it's funny.

[@siwa7160]

The world is not ending, that sort of thing has been happening for millions of years and will keep happening for millions more! So why not enjoy the show!

[@paulinnanjing]

"I've never seen anything like this" might explain the camera angle. If you'd ever seen a proper landslide you wouldn't be standing there!

[@albionjq]

quite a strange reaction to a landslide, laughing

[@susanolson3611]

That looks like a fault line at the top of the hill, running parallel to the beach. 7:01

[@rosemarydudley9954]

Cartographers please note .... The shape of England has changed!

[@taffythegreat1986]

How come it’s just all collapsing ? You’re dead lucky to catch that on video 👍👍😜

[@TheFaderland]

This is our world, not climate crisis.

[@markblix6880]

Why is he laughing?

[@ginawiggles918]

Drunk? 🤷🏽

[@merryhunt9153]

Nothing in my geology classes prepared me for these videos which show that landslides begin by cliffs pulverizing high on the slopes. I used to think that big blocks tumbled or slid under gravity and fractured upon hitting the land. Often this is not so.

[@noeraldinkabam]

Eureka? Lol dude. Silence is golden for a reason.

[@bettyprussia9777]

Why is everyone so happy this is a awful thing

[@itsjudystube]

It’s a natural event

[@siwa7160]

Are you calling nature, awful?

[@littlewingpsc27]

Interesting looking quartz veins at the bottom near the beach. Anyone ever take a closer look at those?

[@shiraz1736]

The laughing was weird.

[@QUIX4U]

What a pity. ZOOMED IN (way too close) means we all lost the entire "slope" moving as a whole, instead all we get to see - is every rock, pebble and or piece of sand/grass slip - without seeing the entire "picture" ? At times I caught an occasional "glimpse" (fleeting at best) of the top of the ridgeline slowly dropping (whilst the person with the camera was hell bent of swinging it all around trying t "fit" everything in, to a way too closely zoomed in "tiny view" ? WHY? Why didn't you simply "un-zoom" to get the entire view in the one position - as a wide-angled view. IF VIEWERS want to see specific parts falling, they themselves can PAUSE the video (or slow it down) to see individual collapses. Zooming in and madly swinging the camera around, means YOU saw it whilst there, but anyone watching the video - has to contend with the IRIS trying to steady the picture, as well as alter it's focal length - for colour etc.. Making this to be way too useless to watch. Oh sure - we get to see, this rock & that pebble, and a bit of sand with a clump of grass here and there. NOT a total hillside collapse (all at the same time)

[@sarkybugger5009]

You said precisely what I came down here to say. I would only add to your dismay by saying that laughing like an idiot didn't help. Even Portrait mode, if held steady, would have been preferable to this. (But only just.)

[@chrisholcombe137]

Standing at the bottom looking up the cliff ? One moment would be to fast to overcome .

[@Nowa100]

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MOMENT... And I'm here - you come in too

[@inner_peace__]

Is it so funny&entertainment to laugh with that kind of phenomenon? There could be houses or even small animals there.🥺😰

[@sixthsenseamelia4695]

2:48 No houses nor animals to be seen. I don't think would be so blasé about it if there was that threat.

[@siwa7160]

Get a life!

[@paulcaton7093]

Nepali, Tibetan, and Pakistani road builders: yeah, welcome to our typical work day.

[@nicolashansen2546]

In geology these things are called mud flows. They can move pebbles, cobbles and if fast enough, it can move boulders. Basically you do not want to jump in there, it’s going to tear anything up since it’s going to fast.

[@nicolashansen2546]

Also the other ones would be considered a fall, since the rocks are unconsolidating and bouncing down the cliff.

[@fernlow1786]

Why are you laughing, spoiled the whole video.

[@nickmaclachlan5178]

Cliff collapsing, so cameraman just sits at the bottom and watches it all come crashing down towards him........? Daft bugger. Seems pretty flippin' dangerous to me......

[@arminmeier1538]

Why are these people laughing all the time…?🤦🏻‍♂️

[@8023120SL]

...and that's how mountains become plains!

[@englishruraldoggynerd]

I completely understand their delight. They’re seeing a process in action that has happened ever since land was formed billions of years ago. It’s a sight to see, one so extraordinary that incredulity is the only rational response. Without this type of erosion there would be no sand, no beaches, no islands. Give them a break please people. Sheesh. 😷👍🏻💦

[@maggied8468]

Agree with you. Pretty overwhelming to see up close and personal.

[@Alaryicjude]

Super agree. I think their laughter made the video what it was.

[@mikeoglen6848]

@@Alaryicjude 🤡

[@chuckrutkowski1072]

Fantastic video... But i really don't understand the humor in it. What makes it funny?

[@janlesinski4719]

You would not cheer if it was your land!

[@patriciajimenez3522]

No entiendo cuál es la risa. Viendo estos desastres naturales. Deberíamos de estar en oración y pidiendo que pare todo esto. Que ignorancia 😠

[@njcaveexplorer]

Understanding the gravity of the situation

[@russell7489]

All the organics that have built up on a vertical cliff face sliding off, gee, what else would it do?

[@waynetaylor5227]

the world just wants to be flat...so cats can push stuff off the edge

[@ytubepuppy]

Cornwall is in England, right? That explains a lot.

[@mhughes1160]

It’s all really funny 😄 until you realize you set your keys 🔑 down on a rock 🪨 at the bottom on the first day . LoL 😂