15 October 2012

An easy Monday morning – a fantastic cliff collapse video from New Zealand

Posted by Dave Petley

Thanks to Lee Peterson for doing the leg work on this video.  This is a rockfall that occurred at Nevis Bluff in New Zealand in September 2000:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF6NM-V1IEU
If the link doesn’t work (seems to be the case with Macs sometimes) try here.
Such cliff collapses are a real and live problem in New Zealand.  This remarkable rockfall occurred on the road to Milford Sound on Friday: