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One of the greatest landslides ever known took place here in 1900 and was repeated on a lesser scale in 2000. In both years the slide dammed the Yigrong River in E Tibet to form a large lake, which eventually broke through with devastating consequences.

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One of the greatest landslides ever known took place here in 1900 and was repeated on a lesser scale in 2000. In both years the slide dammed the Yigrong River in E Tibet to form a large lake, which eventually broke through with devastating consequences.
This is looking North, back up the track the landslides followed as they descended to the valley. The resulting fan of debris fills the middle ground. When the lake finally broke through this blockage it created the trench running from left to right across the lower part of the picture.

One of the greatest landslides ever known took place here in 1900 and was repeated on a lesser scale in 2000. In both years the slide dammed the Yigrong River in E Tibet to form a large lake, which eventually broke through with devastating consequences.

One of the greatest landslides ever known took place here in 1900 and was repeated on a lesser scale in 2000. In both years the slide dammed the Yigrong River in E Tibet to form a large lake, which eventually broke through with devastating consequences.

This panorama covers about 180 degrees. At the left the Yigrong River can be seen running through the large trench cut when the lake finally burst through the dam created by the landslide. The cliffs along either side give some indication of the amount of material swept away. The northern part of the debris field stretches across this view. The mature trees at the far right are growing on the eastern most part of the 1900 debris field, indicating that the smaller 2000 landslide did not carry this far.