[akiselev]

Before anyone gets excited, the landslide occurred in the 12th century or so :(

I was all excited to plan a rock hounding trip to the Himalayas. I even sent out the Sherpa bat signal (it’s a silhouette of me shaving a Himalayan yak), only to find out I’m eight hundred years too late.

[gumby]

I can’t say I am sympathetic about you having missed this Himalayan landslide. If you dawdled, it’s not my problem.

But if you’re willing to travel to the Alps, here’s one from a couple of weeks ago: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/16/huge-landslide...

[Mordisquitos]

Given it happened well within recorded history I was excited to see if there were any contemporary accounts of the event, but disappointingly the article doesn't cite any, nor does it indicate whether there has been research on that facet. However remote in the Himalayas it may have been, surely such a cataclysmic landslide must have been felt and heard a significant distance away.

[dboreham]

Smaller mountain landslides do occur in modern times. There was one here in Montana in 1959 that killed 27 people and blocked a major river. The effects are still visible today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_Hebgen_Lake_earthquake

[pixl97]

I mean the 'biggest' landslides are so big I'm not sure we'd fully be aware if one was going to happen soon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_Mountain_(Wyoming)

>Between 50 and 48 million years ago a sheet of rock about 500 square miles (1,300 square kilometers) in area detached from the plateau south of the Beartooths and slid tens of kilometers to the southeast and south into the Bighorn and Absaroka Basins

Luckily events like this are geologically rare. A bigger risk would be tsunamis from underwater mountain landslides.

[sjkoelle]

the huascaran landslide too

[dylan604]

> only to find out I’m eight hundred years too late.

and I thought I was bad for missing the timezone and being an hour late to watch the ESA's Euclid launch. Besides, I was able to watch mine in replay.

[yard2010]

Some people like the idea of looking into the future, but I would prefer going back in time as a passenger only to see.. I mean we're time traveling any instant, just wait enough and you get to time travel, but there are some events like 100-200 years ago you can't ever really experience..

[jononomo]

Apparently there are records of a loud noise being heard as far away as Timbuktu in the 12th century.

[devoutsalsa]

Now I want some yak momos.