HUGE (and I mean HUGE) ALPINE ROCKFALL VIDEO!

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Fritz

Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 1, 2012 - 11:53pm PT
My apologies if this has been previously posted, but I did search the forum under likely topics.

This youtube video had a HUGE-CHUNK of a mountain-top falling away.

Sunnybeaches! (I thought!)



zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Dec 1, 2012 - 11:54pm PT
Hey Fritz - I couldn't click on it, so I made it a little easier - impressive rock fall.


[Click to View YouTube Video]


EDIT:

The syntax looks like this {youtube=y33STLSFjkE} but replace the {} with []
Fritz

Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 1, 2012 - 11:58pm PT
Thanks ZBrown! I'm still suffering with the embedding instructions!
graniteclimber

Trad climber
The Illuminati -- S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Division
Dec 2, 2012 - 12:05am PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]


[Click to View YouTube Video]
ß Î Ø T Ç H

Boulder climber
bouldering
Dec 2, 2012 - 12:07am PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Fritz

Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 2, 2012 - 12:10am PT
Let me be the first to explain the common theme of these videos!

If you go off to climb in the mountains.







Yere gonna die!
Vitaliy M.

Mountain climber
San Francisco
Dec 2, 2012 - 12:28am PT
So what if there was someone's line up there and not it fell off. Can someone else go climb it and claim a FA? lol
MisterE

Social climber
Dec 2, 2012 - 12:31am PT
^^

http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/1398290/Dude-Your-Route-Fell-Down-Post-Up
Fletcher

Trad climber
The rock doesn't care what I think
Dec 2, 2012 - 12:52am PT
Wow!

Eric
climbski2

Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
Dec 2, 2012 - 09:50am PT
These vids definately get your attention

Here is the scariest one I've seen on Vid.

[Click to View YouTube Video]
SCseagoat

Trad climber
Santa Cruz
Dec 2, 2012 - 10:01am PT
Oh my





Susan
SteveW

Trad climber
The state of confusion
Dec 2, 2012 - 10:10am PT

Let's hope nobody was below them. . .
philo

Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
Dec 2, 2012 - 10:48am PT
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG


Amazing that they were there with vidcam focused on the mountain at the time of those mass wastings.
cintune

climber
Midvale School for the Gifted
Dec 2, 2012 - 10:53am PT
Damn trundlers.
Mark Hudon

Trad climber
Hood River, OR
Dec 2, 2012 - 10:59am PT
Dang!
kaholatingtong

Trad climber
Nevada City
Dec 2, 2012 - 11:37am PT
wow. the sheer power of nature can be fascinating to watch in action.
Stewart Johnson

climber
lake forest
Dec 2, 2012 - 11:40am PT
the lands were shaped by rain.
10b4me

Boulder climber
member since 2002
Dec 2, 2012 - 11:44am PT
That rockfall on Rainier was impressive.
I wonder what side of the mountin that was on?
Branscomb

Trad climber
Lander, WY
Dec 3, 2012 - 11:10am PT
I've seen that vid of the Rainier avalanche on U tube...they said it was part of the Nisqually Cleaver that collapsed...wow.
Gene

climber
Dec 3, 2012 - 11:17am PT
That's why I always wear my helmet in the hills.

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