Illgraben 29. 06. 2020 Lave torrentielle / Murgang / Debris flow

[@huenchen82]

Such footage makes it hard to believe that it takes millions of years to wash down a mountain! 3 hours of this show and the alpes where history...Great stuff, thanks a lot!

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[@pb3799]

Absolutely mind blowing the amount of force needed to move boulders that size. I can see over time how this debris could change the course of the river it empties into. Thank you for sharing.

[@HotelPapa100]

Oh, it does. The Illgraben is at the edge of Pfynwald, a giant debris fan that most definitely has moved the Rhône to the side.

[@jmousevancouver6471]

I find these videos mesmerizing. The size of the rocks in this one was so cool! Keep them coming.

[@reneethompson1564]

This is a perfect example of “water being the enemy”. The geologic engineering firm I worked at for 10 years, talked about the power of water all the time. The boulders being pushed along are larger than some homes. Give a little trickle of water a path and it will end up looking like this. I love Mother Nature❤️

[@yveslaflute9228]

You can go around the landscape and see that the waters were 400 feet sbove flow now some time before. You can see the rocks it left in its way.

[@TheBrushcutter]

I think in this case slope and gravity kinda helped move things along.

[@patriciahaley3367]

Renee Thompson , Awesome!!!!!

[@cruzanmongoose]

Those rocks are far from the size of houses biggest rocks in that vid look to be about 10 tons. A rock even the size of a small house would be at least 500 to 1000 tons..

[@bluebalute]

@@cruzanmongoose I'll go with your guestimate. In the vid he has ~4x4x2 and 50T. It did look like 4 feet x 4 feet x 2 feet (not meters)( there were branches and leaves in the foreground to give a little scale) and definately not 50 tons or tonnes.

[@noraleestone2859]

I don't know what it is that I like so much about your videos - I'm just very happy you keep making them! From a fan in Canada.

[@jeanyvesangers3885]

Quebec

[@jeanyvesangers3885]

Love it

[@reginaschroder563]

Das Wasser hat soviel Kraft! Bin erst vor ein paar Tagen auf Ihre Videos gestoßen und bin verblüfft, was da im Illgraben abgeht ! Vielen Dank und ich werde weiter mit Begeisterung und Erstaunen hier zusehen 👍

[@robinburk8316]

I like the way you filmed this video, the angles were great! I enjoy seeing those huge rocks tumble down. It's kind of hypnotic, lol Keep the videos coming! 👍

[@bigcasey4143]

It's a Rocky Horror Show....

[@wayoutwest4944]

Enjoy watching these type videos. Thanks for the weight estimate on the 50T boulder. Lots of energy being dissipated.

[@richkeylor787]

One of these years, someone with a drone is going to capture some amazing video.

[@lizz5235]

Watching others from you - but I have never seen such enormous rocks before. WOW! That cement washing through has to be powerful!!

[@sparkiekosten5902]

It's an amazing world we live in.....when a camera can zoom in so far to capture such detail......Amazing!

[@bobw222]

I'm always amazed at how little water there is at the start of some of these flows, particularly this one. I think the 04.06.20 flow is the first one I've seen that had a lot of water at the start of the flow.

[@boris2873]

The nature Channel, in today's world i needed that.

[@xistsixt]

I love to see this, especially because I grew up in that region. Sweet memories, thank you for the effort. 👍

[@sharonolsen6579]

Holeee Christmas ! The size of those boulders being tossed around like ping pong balls is mind boggling... This is incredible ! Water is truly a most fascinating and powerful substance .. Great video share !!! Watched the entire 15 minutes in awe !

[@smidon]

I love watching these ... I find myself rooting for a couple of the boulders ... come on, you can do it, yeah!

[@sueturner3580]

Every one of your videos are amazing. Thank you.

[@CarolTeza-i7d]

Simply 😍 amazing there 😁 are no words. Thank you for sharing. Boulder like?? WOW got love Gods ❤️ beauty. !!!

[@lynwilliams4201]

Totally amazing!!! I could watch this all day!!! Great videos!!

[@Jack_rabbits_sage_brush]

Total power right there. Being able to move boulders the size of semi trucks is no easy task and this river is moving them like pebbles. Raw power of nature.

[@Joserocha-wm9de]

That's incredible 😮 and amazingly satisfying 👌 thank you for sharing it with us

[@giuseppersa2391]

When Mother Nature moves we must all step back in awe

[@scottstewart5784]

I miss right rock.

[@lindaj5492]

Those huge boulders don’t seem reappear once they’ve dropped over the concrete edge. Is there a really deep ditch there where they accumulate, or are they just being pulverised and moving on as smaller pieces?

[@larrymillhouse2955]

Such an awesome display of mother nature!!!

[@rockbottom1969]

It amazes me how easy those big boulders just roll down the stream. Wow.

[@vanessabailey2547]

Best one yet thanks for sharing

[@joandar1]

Respect for the power of Water and Gravity. This is how the World is carved out with the Migration of Rocks down stream to try and make a level playing field, lol. John Australia. Thumbs up.

[@americanpatriot2.06]

I can imagine how often those concrete barriers have to be repaired or redone!

[@shirleys2295]

it amazes me that the amount falling in compared to the small stream coming out. can you explain that. where is all the water going when it falls over the concrete wall.

[@samsungnvA51]

Where does this water come from at this time? from a dam, sluice gate open?

[@danemortensen3099]

I would love to see the origin of all this. It seems like the whole side of a mountain came down. Crazy!

[@Lwah0812]

I believe a glacier is the origin but I could be wrong.

[@fasx56]

In what country did this Mud Flow take place.? Was this flow caused by Heavy Rain way up river or a Dam Breaking.?

[@gastangler]

Huiiii - waren diesmal wieder ein paar ordentliche Kaventsmänner dabei. Tolle Bilder und guter Sound - weiter so!👍

[@alanschwier4045]

Video is amazing... any chance of a Drone for Up and Down stream videos?

[@pierre-emmanuelzufferey1470]

yes but when it happens it is most of the time raining yet, sometimes lightning, wind.. . it would be my dream to catch it with a drone.

[@sometimehurt]

@@pierre-emmanuelzufferey1470 for that you need a weather station. Featured with camera

[@ronnyvanderwee417]

Thank You for this amazing video.

[@apropo0]

How broken down or finely ground do these stones become by the end of the debris flow?

[@geoffbreen2386]

I see a lot of great material that could be used low down on farming land. It's being ground down to smaller sizes. What type of rock is it?

[@ValleyProud916]

How many rocks can one mountain crap out?😅

[@leiyu913]

definitely one of the best clip about debris flow!

[@carolynnaumann2306]

You’ve a great camera, man... the power of water....

[@gregjones2217]

Where does it end up?

[@jessgill8479]

Which place ? Country ?

[@haroldsmith8698]

the thing is::the one stone is there on the gate it would weigh near 500 pounds there is not enough pressure to move it as the segments come down

[@smidon]

I see a few of the big boulders moving in the foreground. Are many of the big rocks falling into the eroded hole under the waterfall and not coming out again whole? In other words they get struck by subsequent boulders and broken up (and only then continue downstream).

[@pierre-emmanuelzufferey1470]

In part but most are not brocken up and go down further, flat in the mud, which is 2 - 3 m deep in the middle. The blocks which brake up are the yellow one because they are more tender, but they are very rare.

[@klausmartinurban7030]

Lieber Pierre, meine Glückwunsche über diesen interessanten Video,.. Ich möchte nur gerne wissen, wohin die Rhône fliesst, , zu einem See oder direkt in Richtung Meer? Ich bin interessiert zu wissen, wohin alle Steine gehen. Ich habe auch beobachtet das viel Schlamm dabei mitkommt, so das in einigen Jahren keine Berge mehr da sind. - Endschuldige meinen Deutsch, ich bin Brasilianer aber von Deitschen Eltern, ich Späche gut Deutsch aber das schreiben ist mir noch ein Problem. Im Anfang der 60 Jahren habe ich in der Schweitz studiert, ( 1,1/2 Jahr, im damaligen Knaben Institut Montana, in Zug / Zugerberg, aber es hat mir nicht viel geholfen, und bin wieder nach Brasilien gezogen. Viele liebe Grüsse aus Rio de Janeiro.

[@petersilie3431]

What happens with the huge rocks, when they end up in river Rhone? Are they pulled out with machines?

[@rossmarktob]

In 100 Year is the huge rock a sand corn at the beach.

[@pierre-emmanuelzufferey1470]

Hello, please look at my new video « Illgraben - Where does all that material go ? »

[@sharon94503]

Millions of years to be pushed up, and minutes to come down. Gravity is glorious.

[@willumwillumstad7724]

Is this happening several times every year?

[@nigelft]

Perhaps I've studied a bit too much Forensic Pathology, but that kind of debris flow is perfect for 'disposal' ... What goes it will certainly not be the same as that reaching the river estuary ...

[@HSkraekelig]

I've had similar thoughts. If you fell in, what came out at the bottom would be, at best, unrecognizable, and at worst, invisible.

[@miguelaguilarvillalobos3065]

He visto varios video de estos movimientos de material, ( y mejor pasar por tonto una vez que no toda la vida ) , ¿ QUÉ CLASE DE MATERIAL ES EL QUE SE REVUELVE CON EL AGUA, PARA MOVER SEMEJANTES PIEDRAS COMO SI FUERAN CAJAS DE FÓSFOROS, 🤔

[@gasperle]

Where/what is the source of all that?

[@spider6167]

Where is this? It's really awesome!

[@TheDmburnham]

Those huge boulders are basically floating!!

[@marielosbogantesalfaro5261]

Donde va a dar tanta piedra al fondo. O cuanto fondo tiene esa caída de agua.

[@rockergirly]

Sehr beeindruckende Brocken von Steinen die da runter kommen.

[@honeyd8436]

How do the giant rocks not break the concrete barriers?

[@pierre-emmanuelzufferey1470]

They are more like landing, the rocks goes over it. Takes the energy of the debris flow... But with the time the concrete is planed, the steel armature appear and they have to be renovated..

[@MrBlindbird]

Ah,so this is how mother nature makes concrete...

[@nebtheweb8885]

Yep, and THIS is how mother nature makes asphalt. kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4uuoHyQfbCFi68

[@dwightmagnuson4298]

Marble Canyon in Death Valley for instance.

[@fish509b]

Making little rocks out og big rocks. Incredible photography.

[@euchiron]

Great zoom, great vantage point!

[@jamescampbell7780]

What is (was) the purpose of the concrete structure?

[@clivehorridge]

James Campbell To slow the flow and hence reduce the scour...

[@jeanmartin9318]

Thanks for the good work..!

[@jessicametzger4662]

Wow! That was bound fascinating and frightening!

[@wesleyerinaldu8200]

I don’t understand I see giant boulders going over but then smooth flowing out

[@dustincallison5250]

Did the one rock to rule them all finally fall down

[@joyclymer7377]

So where do these huge rocks end up at?

[@pierre-emmanuelzufferey1470]

Hello, please look at my new video « Illgraben - Where does all that material go ? »

[@dafrasier1]

flows into Rhone at Migrol tankstelle ? 46°18'43.4"N 7°37'58.3"E ??

[@picardiebelleregion9508]

Cela arrive combien de fois par année ?

[@njrasmussen5515]

Boulders are freaking massive, it almost looks like a slurry from a concrete truck

[@ThomasKundera]

Some are more than 20 metric tons...

[@christiankohl5693]

Ich habe ein Chalet in unmittelbarer Nähe dieses Illgrabens. Oft wenn es nachts geregnet hat, hört man das Gerumpel und Gepolter der großen Steinböcke so laut, daß man nicht schlafen kann.

[@gladisrivera7306]

Qúísierá saver pordonde se esta yendo eĺ agua xque x ensima nóes

[@franckk2271]

J'adore vidéo top. Merci

[@TheMateriaalkunde]

Now we must compliment the Swiss people, who manage to direct the course of such a monster.. There are countries in the world where such torrents are left to find their own way down.. Right through a village....

[@joesmo6962]

How deep are those holes?

[@ELR1000]

I am interested in the downstream confluence.

[@pierre-emmanuelzufferey1470]

I have it at the end of the video !

[@ELR1000]

@@pierre-emmanuelzufferey1470 　　　Thank you very much. I was able to confirm. I want to go to this place. from Japan···

[@pierre-emmanuelzufferey1470]

Hello, please look at my new video « Illgraben - Where does all that material go ? »

[@mig7287]

Another super video. 👍

[@stevenherrold5955]

all that stuff is coming from somewhere i would want to trace it back to the source to see what the rain did after that rock and dirt has been moved out

[@viperus1234]

kind of a slow one, but those boulder - massive :) tx

[@DebsWombat]

This interesting concrete containment system (I don’t know what else to call it), does anyone know when it was constructed?

[@pierre-emmanuelzufferey1470]

Began about 1963. Slow down the energy of the flow..

[@DebsWombat]

@@pierre-emmanuelzufferey1470 Thank you so much for answering! Your videos are marvelous. 😊

[@Neilhuny]

Surely this video has some of the largest rocks moved in any of your videos?

[@pierre-emmanuelzufferey1470]

No look at Illgraben 22.07.2016 ...

[@ВикторМ-в6э]

@@pierre-emmanuelzufferey1470 150 t Mecalo?

[@prokkle]

Is this something that is happening because of deforestation? Has it been happening for a long time?

[@Lwah0812]

My thoughts are it’s a glacial melt flow.

[@pkd19]

04:38 that's a decent size rock coming down,you can actually hear it..

[@CrustyAbsconder]

It seems like this could be prevented by removing all the mountains.

[@hchristineq4790]

Does any part of the debris channel ever have to be dredged?

[@Lwah0812]

I’ve been wondering 5he same thing. This is the third video I’ve watched, it is so mesmerizing. ,

[@franklesser5655]

Water, sculptor of our landscape, poet of the wilderness.

[@roybatty-]

That looks delicious.

[@KenJackson_US]

Is there a backstory? Does this happen every time it rains? Or did a dam burst? What happened?

[@bluebalute]

Search through his vids and he gives some explanation as to where and how this forms. It's all dependent on what the winter snows have moved, where it rains exactly and how much it rains. It's just a debris flow and is fairly common there and many places around the world. The dam type structure is built to help control this flow. Check this vid out that has surging and then see how thick the mix is: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4uuoHyQfbCFi68

[@johng0908]

Not to sound too much like a bourgeois capitalist, does anyone harvest the rocks that are tumbled down? I've watched most, if not all of your videos and it seems like a perfect way to use some of the debris while generating funds for the area. Landscaping, architects, builders, etc. Just curious.

[@HSkraekelig]

Yes, there is a gravel facility on the banks of the Rhone near the end of the outflow. You can see it in Google Earth.

[@haroldsmith8698]

THIS ONE IS A HARD ONE TO FIGURE OUT if you don't spend some time at it

[@darylmorse]

Incredible!

[@nathanyoung1947]

Imagine playing in there as a kid in the flash flood is your last memory...

[@shirleys2295]

wow, the giant stones and water that never fill up the hole to hell. amazing.

[@agentx7138]

Could somone possibly paint on the concrete a meter long line it would really help us to appreciate the scale of these debris flows?

[@clivehorridge]

IMO there’s some imaginative exaggeration of the size of the tumbling boulders in this video, my guess would be up to 1 meter, not much more. Impressive video, nevertheless.👍🏻🇷🇴🇬🇧

[@MrBen527]

Yes

[@leehilton9932]

I'm guessin about the hight of a 1 story house at the roof, probably a little more

[@ИгорьСазонов-б2з]

Мощь воды впечатляет. А говорят камни не плавают.

[@johnveglio4433]

Looks like the cement mixer for the great pyramid of Egypt !!!

[@ayoubay7459]

واد فيه الحجر هذا جزاء بني البشر كي طغى وكفر ومزال يالحقنا اشحال من ابتلاء أكثر إذ لانتوب ونستغفر هذه حقيقة والحق مر كله واقع وليس فقط نشعر وإياكم تقلون راه يتمسخر هذه عقلية الذر وانا في حالي هكذا فالكبر ....

[@kensanity178]

Your mind keeps telling you these rocks must be smaller than they appear, because if they are as big as they appear, then the biggest weigh many tons.

[@gladisrivera7306]

Dios bendito que susto yó si le tengo panicó a esto que sustó el poder del agua

[@sukygill9998]

The Power. The Beauty.

[@ابومرسي-ن2ر]

سبحان الله العظيم

[@prebenstablet8765]

Amazing video