Spectacular Rockslide in Switzerland (two angles)

One cameraman got incredibly close to a spectacular rockslide which occurred on Monday (19th of October 2015) in the Valaisan community of Evolène (Switzerland).
As officials said, the rock had been considered as fragile and was under observation. About 2000 cubic meters of stone then broke finally off a cliff, falling down into the valley. According to officials, there have not been seen any damages so far. A little village got evacuated and one road closed before although the rocks did not reach this infrastructure.
Courtesy: VS.ch

[@Badger1776]

I bet that rock tells all the rocks “you know I used to be on top of that mountain” and none believe it.

[@KCJbomberFTW]

🤣🤣🤣

[@nightmarethunderfist]

Best comment I've read on youtube

[@snoutysnouterson]

I'm dead 🤣

[@dougieh9676]

Hahaha 🤣. Good one.

[@vincentvince3505]

Lmfao

[@moose1442]

There is something beautifully significant about such a scary event. With the slow pace of nature, it's kind of cool to witness the face of a mountain changing like that and knowing that we saw a change that generations afterwards will not experience what it was before.

[@cowboykelly6590]

Yes , Astonishing . 🤠🖖

[@toomanyhobbies2011]

You don't think people just stood around waiting for that rock to fall? This was a man made rockslide to remove an unstable formation that endangered buildings on the mountain.

[@ScottsOnTheRottenCotton]

@@toomanyhobbies2011 nobody likes a know it all

[@r3d0c]

@@toomanyhobbies2011 i mean it would have happened naturally and in an uncontrolled manner anyways, just a bit more safer this way

[@HighlanderNorth1]

☑️🤔 Yep, but I've been sitting in a lounge chair at ^that same spot ever since shortly after that huge rock mass broke loose, and I'm gonna wait right here for the next one to break loose, no matter how long it takes! I've been sitting here 6 years so far, but I planned ahead and brought LOTS of beef jerky with me....

[@RVBob]

As you can see from the many scars through the forest, that is not the first time large rockslides have hit there.

[@vossejongk]

thats mostly from avalanches ;)

[@trulsdirio]

And surely not the last. As more thawing and re freezing is happening rock slides will become more regular. Also in some bigger mountains in the Alps it was now seen that the permafrost core holding them together for the first time is melting in the summer, so even whole mountain faces coming undone might be something that will be happening in a few decades or millennia if the trend keeps on.

[@RVBob]

@@trulsdirio one thing is certain, what goes up must come down. It is only a matter of time. Sooner or later, every tree, mountain, house and bridge will fall.

[@Aelfraed26]

Those aren't "scars", that's just where the water flows. Trees can't grow there.

[@snoutysnouterson]

@@RVBob You are so wize! I think its to do with a force called something like gravy, or gravitas, but I'm not sure.

[@AndyKunkel]

That stone is literally the size of those houses near the bottom. WOW

[@electric2018]

Bigger

[@brianmck7363]

And weighs a thousand times more

[@Roscoe.P.Coldchain]

At least 4 times bigger than a house I reckon easy

[@snoutysnouterson]

@@electric2018 Spinosaurus? 😱

[@colinashby3775]

And how big was the piece that broke away.

[@BlueDart1971]

When someone says amazing or spectacular on KZbin it’s usually clickbait and I’m disappointed. That truly was spectacular and from two different views!

[@endthisnonsense7202]

I have seen such a thing in Austria from a similar distance it is incredibly frightening, and indeed way way louder than you can capture on video.

[@jamescody183]

As a camera operator, the rocks were so fast that you can see them dissappear and reappear when they are flying.

[@jamescody183]

(This why for sports they always talk about 300FPS which is pictures per second)😋

[@Bibibosh]

Did you say Australia?

[@endthisnonsense7202]

@@Bibibosh No.

[@davidgraham2673]

That WAS spectacular. I noticed all the cleared out areas running down the mountain slope. I'm thinking previous rockfalls, and possibly avalanches have cleared out the trees as they fell down the steep terrain.

[@leonardoaraujo8364]

Some of them are made by water at defrost season.

[@ianism3]

definitely avalanches. rockfalls will cause a few trees to be knocked over, but won't take out such wide swaths of them. the video depicts a massive rockfall and it barely knocks over any trees. avalanches can cover longer distances more easily (snow and ice have less friction than rock and dirt, and also weigh less) and will affect a far wider area. meltwater will just follow the fall lines in a trickle (compared to an avalanche). just look up a video of an avalanche to see what I'm talking about.

[@MichaelClark-uw7ex]

Yep.

[@Canada_Dominium]

Note how the 'rocks' are as tall as trees and five times larger than the houses in that little clearing.

[@teeanahera8949]

Why the inverted commas, they are real rocks.

[@Canada_Dominium]

@@teeanahera8949 Real big rocks, yes

[@PiXie232]

I’m shocked that people dared build those houses there, knowing just how dangerous an area that location is. I’d be scared a huge boulder would come crashing through if that was my place..

[@skahler]

Wouldn't that be crazy if it just like... bounced over you You gotta think there's somebody in history that has gone under the path of a 5 story boulder and survived

[@santyclause8034]

Then the dogs come out of their kennels, and bark at the rock.

[@MarkH10]

That first house up the slope, seen at 1:25+ seems overly, uncomfortably close to the bottom of the fall, however, notice how the placement has that large forest behind it with no history of rock travel approaching. Tracks on both sides, and past the property, but the elevation in geography right at the build provides a path of least resistance away from the home site. Nice pick for the house.

[@brennanperry8001]

I like how you can see where previous rock slides have been by size of the trees.

[@thepalegreek3741]

Those trees were exploding, that was amazing and scary.

[@metallicaKSA]

Just like Bastogne

[@egyptson9428]

Hmmmm..... Interesting.... This video just answered 10,000 years worth of questions that i had about this planet. Thank you for this.

[@RoleyChiu]

props to the camera man for following the lead rocks!

[@jamescody183]

I was camping in Kandersteg Switzerland the year before and we had the very end of a slide like this causing trouble at the campsite! Spectacular nature.

[@MarkH10]

'causing trouble', you mean drunk, and singing songs about the slide in the middle of the night when everyone else wants to sleep?

[@ryanrussell6256]

"Hello, I am gravity and I am not satisfied with where this rock was placed"

[@swippa1000]

Ryan Russell 😂😂 that was actually hilarious

[@dorothyw1738]

Well this is nature you cannot place the rock whereever you want.

[@AtlasReburdened]

Gravity, man... Always keeping me down.

[@gordonmccoy4537]

Ryan Russell.... Funny...! Thanks for the smile....!

[@michaelkarnerfors9545]

"It's just a theory..."

[@EllerbeCreekBand]

I wonder if the people in the house at the bottom know how close they came to disaster?

[@DonQuijoteTV]

+Ellerbe Creek Band It was actually known that this rock is really unstable. So even the road below was closed a certain time ago.

[@meh-87]

You can see that the house is pretty well protected from slides because of the angles of the terrain above it. They chose that spot to build for a reason.

[@Hatunrumioc]

@Skip Daulton there are valleys and ridges coming down the mountain. The rocks and avalanches funnel into the valleys as it does here. You can see where the trees have been bulldozed and where they have lived to grow fully. The houses are built under a ridge with thick forest for this very reason.

[@darb4091]

@Skip Daulton yup, look at the tree sizes in the different areas; avalanches regularly cleanse the same areas year after year.

[@Canada_Dominium]

@@meh-87 Yeah, until a boulder the size of a car punches through the roof.

[@ZEUSs_Paw]

WOW! Looks like that actually came close to a couple homes. Ya never know exactly know where the trajectory of a rolling rolling rock/boulder is going to end up.

[@gregoryeverson741]

that rock was big as a house

[@southern_merican]

They dont end up,....they end down !🤣

[@johnstevenson9956]

Yeah, time to pack up and move.

[@hamaljay]

Primarily you have to understand the gravity of the situation. But if you look at where the houses were in relation to the previous scars through the trees it looks like they placed the houses purposefully there to protect the houses from those kind of rock slides. Or at least I would have, because I don't think that's the first time a rock slide has happened there.

[@bigshrimp6458]

@@johnstevenson9956 literally a one in a zillion chance that would hit your house or you

[@k.m.6265]

that rock feature had been a part of that mountain top for god knows how many thousands of years, and you witnessed it's fall from grace

[@JarthenGreenmeadow]

Hundreds of thousands at least.

[@NGH99999]

"Honey, I was thinking how nice it would be to have a new rock feature in our backyard."

[@maggs131]

If you look really hard you can see the tiny "for sale" signs in front of those houses

[@MrDriftspirit]

Good camerra work on booth angles.awesome timing and footage...thanks!

[@dougdelane3642]

Can we take a moment, that no woman was screaming in the background. It's really great.

[@kpd3308]

AMEN!!!

[@ShainAndrews]

OMG! OMG!!!! OOOOOMMMMMGGGG!!!!

[@suziecreamcheese211]

Yea but men kept talking. It was annoying AF.

[@ShainAndrews]

@@suziecreamcheese211 Speak of the devil...

[@dougdelane3642]

@@suziecreamcheese211 Ah yes the light talking which is the same as screaming. Typical feminist woman...we get it men are bad...lol Now go play softball or something

[@AFloridaSon]

I only watch this because YT kept telling me to, I really wanted to get them to stop or at least slow down. But I'm actually really glad I watched this. Super cool.

[@community1949]

Earth is a very volatile planet and always has been.

[@peculiarstraw8648]

Amazing footage. You can literally see little explosions of wood splinters as the rock slams into the trees.

[@CPUT99]

Props to both camera people for not suddenly pointing at their shoes or otherwise shaking the camera profusely right at the impactful part

[@simonshotter8960]

My friend lives in Switzerland. We have visited a giant rock which has a tent, a man and his full belongs still underneath it. The rock was the size of a house

[@simonshotter8960]

@trollolol stupid place to camp…

[@jorgecardoso5863]

Humans: Spectacular Squirrels: And this, grandkids, is how I survived the armageddon

[@Skud0rz]

apart from the murderstones this looks like a really nice place

[@runristaren]

Great footage, even better commentary!

[@theniceguy27]

I used to love rolling rocks down a big hill when i was a kid, but this is just ridiculous!

[@ant-1382]

What freakin awesome power!! Thev'e been there before! You can see the cuts by previous slides. With the further back camera. Probably been going on for thousands of years. Must have been awesome to see that first hand.

[@russellfrancis813]

When the cameraman said "putain, putain" I couldn't help but agree haha

[@cowboykelly6590]

BAHAHAHA.. 🤣

[@SRocco-dv8we]

Very cool video 👍🏼 but don’t you love when something literally amazing is happening and the person with camera films “ what’s not happening or the floor “ lol I could see the people in the two houses literally walk out an put up a for sale sign before the rockfall came to a stop lmfao 😂

[@jackrussell680]

Crazy place to build. You can see the difference in tree height from previous rock slides or possibly avalanche. Either way that whole area is torn up.

[@PiXie232]

Right??

[@jbmbryant]

That 5-11 climb just became a 5-10.

[@lindaj5492]

There’s another huge block at the very top that looks ready to break off. Those long gaps in the tree cover seem to be from past rock falls, and new rock follows the same trails.

[@dustintacohands1107]

Imagine the speed some of those rocks get dang

[@seriousbees]

Crazy how the first chunk breaks apart while falling like its made of sand. But actually its pure granite. The internal forces involved here are unfathomable

[@gulpbiys5705]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/i5qQqaaNj9ZnnM0 ,,

[@one7decimal2eight]

Numerous trees were hurt in the making of this video

[@Techtastisch]

*Mountain used Rocktomb on the Houses *It missed

[@cellP8]

ha! i know that reference ;)

[@wohingenau5863]

Dich hier zu sehen kommt jetzt überraschend xD

[@Frosst]

😂😂

[@gingerbread6614]

Fantastic shots. Wow. Thank you

[@civilissouls]

Wow, that dense forest is so strong against huge rocks. These houses seems to be highly protected. I remember that I saw a tree hit by rock still standing stiff even though it's bursted like explosived from inside.

[@piccalillipit9211]

*WHEN I WAS 13* I was with the school in Switzerland - in the night we kept hearing bums and deep rumbles and the next morning the mountain above you could see the huge rock slides and avalanches. It was quite scary - like WOW thank God they stopped before they reached us.

[@grandenauto3214]

I live near Frank Slide in Alberta…. It’s amazing that this was captured on video and no one was hurt.

[@abc369]

Vegetation and animals.

[@LitoGeorge]

Franks slide is spectacular and haunting

[@Ztertis]

Incredible footage! Amazing

[@victorferrero9359]

you can see that this happens frequently enough that it effects the tree growth. You can see the lanes that the rocks have carved out in the treeline

[@xaviergorloo8050]

also from avalanches

[@vespadavidson2315]

They are man made fire breaks. Ffs.

[@spacelemur7955]

@@vespadavidson2315 No, mostly these are natural avalanche chutes. Firebreaks are wider and more even in their width. Also, these chutes in the video are naturally in the ravines, which channel the snow and rock debris. There are too many parallel to each other to be firebreaks.

[@Wft-bu5zc]

Those are formed by snow avalanches.

[@kc3718]

tip, if you see juvenille trees as you walk up a mountain, perhaps move towards the larger ones !

[@leolldankology]

RiiiiiiiiiiCCCCCCCCOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@xx2345000]

Very under rated comment

[@fabfabdorack8836]

leo ll excellent!!!!!!

[@fabfabdorack8836]

leo ll aussi: J'ai 8 secondes pour vous dire que la barre ovomaltine, C'est d'la dynamite.

[@paulrinehart4262]

😂🤣😂🤣

[@LutaHgaming]

That boulder came terrifyingly close to that house down there. Too close for comfort imo.

[@OzrikKnob]

I love that you can hear the cow bells in the background.

[@ithaka3835]

Great footage!

[@brianmck7363]

I seen one giant boulder fall down Mount Washington in New Hampshire it took down about 15 big pine trees before it finally slowed down…

[@gorgosanma]

You can learn 2 things about Switzerland from this video: - People swear - Their mountains are low quality

[@mr.t6142]

Mother nature is wild and yet magnificent. For a heartfelt read. Try, "Sprinkled with Emotion", by Thomas C. Stuhr.

[@Donovaan]

Thanks for the suggestion!

[@unutilisateur4729]

Dude, that's just a bunch of rocks rolling down a mountain

[@M-PASTA]

The most accurate title for a video ever

[@claytmadron2472]

I bet this video, being as awesome as it is, does not do justice to the experience of being so close when this rock starts rolling.

[@tissuepaper9962]

No consumer audio recorder can adequately capture the sub-10Hz cataclysm going on while this is happening. You would have been able to feel and hear the shaking for miles around.

[@krasimirshterev6620]

Really good catch! Congatulations!

[@raynic1173]

From the look of the paths cut in those trees, this has been going on for a very long time.

[@jacobkeller29]

That is awesome. I like hearing the bells from the cows in the background. I miss Switzerland

[@laszlozoltan5021]

Wow- that is really terrifying

[@HORRIOR1]

0:07 Huh... and here I thought Geezer Rock was situated in Springfield.

[@jayjaynella4539]

If only many politicians had been on top of the rock for a photo opportunity!!!

[@andybrockbank3027]

or in front of it.

[@MrCow579]

Nature is both beautiful and scary at the exact same moment!

[@forestdweller5581]

Not the first slide there if you look at the hillside. Those houses were likely built with that in mind... That guy standing next to it while filming must have changed his underwear a few times lol ;)

[@sammcgrail3949]

It’s incredible to see how much kinetic energy that rock has. I mean the second camera angle showed the two large chunks or rock to be larger than the tall pines. Moreover the two rocks gain incredible speed from rolling down the mountain. It really makes you scoff at the enormous amounts of energy needed by the shifting tech tonics in order to get such massive chunks of rock that high. It really makes you think…wow this planet is alive.(I’m so fried writing this comment)

[@lordfrostdraken]

Bruh. Thats so crazy

[@tymesho]

brute force, yet a pebble in the big scheme.

[@EmmaGouveia]

Love this comment

[@tymesho]

Kiss, Emma. Thank you.

[@dmeads5663]

It’s that damn squirrel again.

[@tyfann8395]

Holy shit... The man can teleport...

[@DonQuijoteTV]

Tyfann hidden Swiss skill, ya know!

[@richlv422]

That last stone made some distance

[@Manofpeasable]

Shouldn't 've yodeled.

[@physicsguybrian]

How did the people on the mountain know to be up there to catch it shearing away?

[@fabfabdorack8836]

Putain is the rock's name.

[@lordhung7013]

Nice tight editing on this, you didn’t make us at all for the money shot And I appreciate that!

[@MineFeeder]

that was actually slightly amazing!

[@chriswertz1438]

Great video!

[@youtubister]

The permafrost that holds the rock together is melting: global warming. There have been many examples of this in the Alps in recent years,

[@mikev2116]

+youtubister The Alps are growing - and are simultaneously being eroded (by various forces) at approximately the same rate, this is likely an example of such, but the ignorant conveniently blame global warming.

[@EddieS95]

+Mike V so 99% of scientists are wrong?

[@milfern]

There have and always will be rockslides where there are mountains. Jesus Christ.

[@gmesomo]

Rockslides are now caused by climate change? Really?

[@jameslandon4126]

The only scientists who push the idea that man is responsible for climate change are the ones on Gov't payroll or those who've been granted money by the Gov't and they're told to toe the line.

[@elram2649]

Sooo that's how RockNRoll begun! 🤔 Excellent! 🎸 Most Beaudacious! ☺️

[@TheEthug]

Global warming in action people, ice stuff, falling from a shelf, and the snow evaporates? I think.

[@AnotherGlenn]

Well, no. It is frost wedging. You should have learned about it in high school. It is the cycling of temperature above and below the freezing point of water that causes the rocks to break free of the mountain. The water finds it's way into the rocks when it is liquid and then breaks them apart a little every time it freezes. Mountains are being formed and weathered continuously. Why is it that preachers of the global warming religion seem to believe the earth is static as opposed to dynamic?

[@HyperMario64]

Beautiful! This is how mountains are made!

[@NYCamper62]

Part of the process yes, but the Alps are loose rock originally from the sea floor pushed up from continents colliding.

[@beer1for2break3fast4]

Quite the opposite lol.

[@riffraff1015]

Thx for sharing your experience with us.Nice concise edit.Good onya.

[@cyborgar15]

RIP trees...

[@DerexArchives]

This will make a fine addition to my "KZbin Algorithm Strikes again" playlist

[@lilmike2710]

Okay I read some semblance of context in the description but I think some info has to have been left out. I get "the rock had been under observation" for a while. And village evacuated and all that. But since there were several camera angles including drone footage, that tells me that the boulder and outcropping was removed in a controlled situation. As in, they caused it to all go ahead and fall. Just sayin, I would have been interested in seeing how they went about coercing the thing to fall. They didn't just happen to have 3 or 4 people standing around recording and a drone camera flying around.

[@crespybenoit8313]

“Oh putain! Oh putain!” French language is so rich and colourful 😂😂

[@srduncanbyu]

really good graphics

[@JordanBeagle]

I feel must've been able to feel the ground shaking. Amazing how far that big chunk made it, glad it didn't get down to those houses

[@MarkH10]

It did get down to the houses, but notice they chose a site that is elevated, so the path of least resistance tends to roll rocks on both sides, but not pathing at the house. Pretty smart, if also a bit dumb to test the physics and see if one day a slide finds your path. Not a good day, if that happens. I don't think I would be comfortable visiting someone in that house.

[@Von45Rose]

DAMN!!!! For all those times I stood on an over look never thinking it could separate 😬😬😬

[@skyhiker9669]

Why are such moments so mesmerizing? 🤔

[@johnleden1909]

Imagine the feeling when the rock next to the one you're standing on suddenly decides to go rolling down the mountain?

[@t800fantasm2]

Well,There's not too many times I'm impressed... but this is one...

[@papawspistoloo6984]

That was really cool. Poor trees.

[@norbacsam]

erosion and gravity doing their job... it takes a few million years to flat a mountain but they do get flat given enough time. Amazing footage!👏👍

[@jedaaa]

I think it's water getting into the rock, freezing and expanding, melting, freezing again and expanding thousands of times over millennia after millennia like slowly crowbaring the rock from the inside, and ondday it melts again for the last time lubricating the fissure as it sheers off under its own weight

[@endurogod-r1e]

This reminds me of the short film "an object at rest", you should watch it its good

[@SquishyMit]

Just watched, good one! Thanks.

[@endurogod-r1e]

@@SquishyMit glad you liked it, gives some perspective to life

[@bonefishboards]

In real life, that must have been wild. The sound must have been overwhelming.

[@yetamin3589]

Stunning country

[@redbaron5308]

That is so beautiful

[@ck01241964]

Awesome video. Thanks!!!!

[@KnightJent]

That last rock rolling so close to that cabin!!

[@MrDeltoric]

the bird who lost their nest to that rolling boulder probably was thinking "holy shit they can move?! i'm never sitting on a rock again"