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 Tigger 25 Sep 2020
In reply to yesbutnobutyesbut:

Just another day on Peak limestone init?

 Lankyman 25 Sep 2020
In reply to yesbutnobutyesbut:

Puts Mam Tor into perspective.

 OwenM 25 Sep 2020
In reply to Lankyman:

A bit like the Rest and be thankful. 

 Frank R. 25 Sep 2020
In reply to yesbutnobutyesbut:

It's Kara-Keche, Kyrgyzstan.

Possibly geolocated to this very spot (I didn't crosscheck):

https://goo.gl/maps/X8ptCDuuPfwnTd4Y6

I wonder if strip-mining the whole rear side of the mountain had anything to do with it? Wouldn't be the first time, although it could be totally unrelated.

I guess the scientists from 2020 International Summer School on Rockslides and Related Phenomena in the Kokomeren River Valley must be facepalming by now, they missed it just by a month, right in the valley next door:

https://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2019/10/15/icl-kokomeren-summer-school/

Jokes aside, huge landslides are apparently quite common in Kyrgyzstan, and sadly very often deadly. In Fergana valley region, they kill around ten people every year, and then there is the Mailuu-Suu city, location of Soviet era uranium mining and processing, with many toxic and radioactive tailing dump sites in the side valleys - if a landslide dammed the side valley there and  the dam formed lake burst, it could contaminate the whole valley downstream. Nobody cared much about the environment back during the Cold War - not that we do much better now...

 wilkie14c 25 Sep 2020
In reply to yesbutnobutyesbut:

Below!

 Frank R. 25 Sep 2020

BTW, while it was merely a joke about the 2020 Rockslide Summer School just missing that big rockslide (although the school does indeed exist!), I can highly recommend the whole

https://blogs.agu.org

website to anybody interested in geophysical sciences or nature, many of the blogs are simply superb!

kane8907 27 Sep 2020
In reply to yesbutnobutyesbut:

Landslide is wonderful of looking, but hope no one is in the disaster mountain

Andy Gamisou 27 Sep 2020
In reply to yesbutnobutyesbut:

Can it be sika-d back on?

 Red Rover 27 Sep 2020
In reply to OwenM:

If that mountain was in Argyll they would just dig some catch-pits and call it a day.


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