Video: Huge Mountain Rock Falls to Earth as Scientist Looks On

Video: Huge Mountain Rock Falls to Earth as Scientist Looks On
(Swiss Department of Transport Canton du Valais/Ludwig Haas)
Jack Phillips
10/29/2015
Updated:
10/29/2015

Around 70,000 cubic feet of the Swiss Alps plummeted 1,000 feet into a valley, and it was captured on video this week.

The event took place on Mel de la Niva, 9,000-foot-tall mountain, and generated an avalanche, according to The Telegraph.

The noise from the rock fall echoed around the valley.

The hamlet below the mountain was evacuated before the rocks fell. A nearby road had been shut down the day before.

The clip showing the collapse was uploaded to YouTube, and it has since gone viral.

Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter with 15 years experience who started as a local New York City reporter. Having joined The Epoch Times' news team in 2009, Jack was born and raised near Modesto in California's Central Valley. Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/jackphillips5
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