I was waiting for the cameraman to zoom out from far away at the end

I thought it was a drone!

Welome to Switzerland! This happened yesterday as there‘s tons of rain coming down… [https://www.20min.ch/video/mattervispa-geroelllawine-rauscht-walliser-fluss-hinunter-103132465](https://www.20min.ch/video/mattervispa-geroelllawine-rauscht-walliser-fluss-hinunter-103132465)

It was even [worse in the Mesolcina in Graubünden](https://www.rsi.ch/info/ticino-grigioni-e-insubria/%E2%80%9CStiamo-cercando-i-dispersi-con-ogni-mezzo%E2%80%9D--2184091.html).

Omg...crazy!

Link in down/broken.

Works fine on two different browsers. It might be a location issue. You can try this: [https://www.cdt.ch/news/stiamo-ancora-cercando-i-tre-dispersi-356020](https://www.cdt.ch/news/stiamo-ancora-cercando-i-tre-dispersi-356020)

Thank you. Works! And my Italian is sooo rusty, but I get the gist.

I can’t read chocolate, couldn’t get past the pop up

I once tried learning Toblerone, and I almost had a stroke just trying to pronounce hello.

🤔 Isn’t Toblerone named after it’s founder, Theodor Tobler. The product's name is a combination of Tobler's name and the Italian word torrone (a type of nougat). It definitely isn’t a language.

Crazy weather you have in Switzerland.

How much rain did you get after all? Okay, I checked, only 124mm. Here in Taiwan this afternoon, some places have gotten 100+mm so far, and it’s just an afternoon cloudburst. It’s really what you’re used to. 25mm of snow in Taipei would probably destroy half the city, but 100mm of rain? Get out your umbrella, nothing unusual. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/heavy-rains-trigger-floods-landslides-switzerland-2024-06-22/

I think it was about 125mm in 24hrs. But the mountains do the rest as all water is getting cooncentrated in very few streams and rivers. The average for the whole month June is 150mm

Recently I happened to see a page about rain in a place in Northern Ireland, the Emerald Isle, which is known for being rainy, and it was about 70mm a month. So I’m surprised that Switzerland gets 150mm/month. I always thought Switzerland was either sunny or snow.

Seeing a river of rocks coming at you, must be terrifying. I would not be on that bridge.

It’s normal for the European Alps. Youtube has several similar videos. Many locations have manmade channels built on top of preexisting natural channels for the flows to move down the mountain and prevent erosion.

That looks leathal as fck!

I was fine, just a few bruises.

Youre fine if you avoid being smashed into a thousand pieces

Just gotta stay loose, try to float above the rocks and ride it out.

Nahhh, but there is a limit of 1 time entry


Cameraman, balls of steel staying on the bridge.

we call that stupid

No, he is cameraman - he will be immune from all damage.

If he doesn't get hurt it's balls of steel. If he gets hurt it's stupid. That's how Reddit works.

Nice word. Might use it later

Balls of stupid

A loooot of trust in some engineers somewhere.

Rock avalanche sounds way cooler than landslide. Thank you for this!

A gravelanche

r/angryupvote

From now on, I'm going to introduce myself as Avalanche, Rock Avalanche.

When does your next movie come out?

Only sands of time will tell


🤩

Rock avalanches and landslides are 2 different things. They both fall under the term of ‘mass waisting’. There are many more variations of mass waisting that id be happy to tell you about if you’re interested.

After the giant burrito I ate I am mass waisting.

Idk if I trust you when you can't spell "mass wasting" correctly.

Thanks! We know your not a professor now

And neither are you. You’re *

I don't insinuate that I am. But thanks for your time ,with that great reply I'm guessing you are a professor!

I’m not?

NO! We know your not!l ...A proffer would know, asking the same question, to the same person , with both of us knowing the correct answer yet you ask again expecting a different answer is border line insane! Well now that I'm thinking back to some of my professors , you may be a insane professor half way into the creepy realm my friend....peace

"your not a professor" Lol

I agree. The first thought that went through my mind when the rocks started tumbling down was how beautiful and mesmerising it looked.

The Boulder is over his conflicted feelings & is ready to bury you in a Rockalanche!

Is the full video anywhere? Really curious for the other side or an afterwards view.

Longer version here: [https://www.20min.ch/video/mattervispa-geroelllawine-rauscht-walliser-fluss-hinunter-103132465](https://www.20min.ch/video/mattervispa-geroelllawine-rauscht-walliser-fluss-hinunter-103132465) The location is here: [https://www.google.com/maps/place/St.+Niklaus,+Schweiz/@46.1721267,7.7675127,13.01z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x478f3f4c5a3ac691:0x852cf60be0f7e1fe!8m2!3d46.1762332!4d7.8045917!16zL20vMGg2NG1u?entry=ttu](https://www.google.com/maps/place/St.+Niklaus,+Schweiz/@46.1721267,7.7675127,13.01z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x478f3f4c5a3ac691:0x852cf60be0f7e1fe!8m2!3d46.1762332!4d7.8045917!16zL20vMGg2NG1u?entry=ttu)

[This video is longer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2Q4QTDP3Ig) and shows the other side after the flow of rocks.

“Hire kommt die Rittigraben” - !! Thanks, cool video.

I would be questioning just how much the supports of the bridge I am standing on are going to love being hit by that.

I was like 'just climb on the side as high as possible', then I saw, they're standing on a bridge, which would have been way easier to escape

Looks like they are standing on solid ground next to where the actual bridge span starts. The avalanche turns away to follow the stream bed under the actual bridge. Video cuts too soon.

Darwin contender right there

Flash flood

You say FORCE of nature, in germany we say Naturgewalt, which translates to nature's violence. I find that a bit more fitting here .\_.

Levels of self preservation have plummeted with the advent of cell phones.

Gotta get 'em views.

I'd run for my life. I'd think about who to contact to warn people down there. I'd regret not having taken such a breathtaking video.

Can someone explain the logistics behind this?? It is absolutely amazing that massive boulders can move that fast and fluid.

It's a flash flood and the rocks are just debris carried along by it

When you change erosion to 128× speed.

Talk about cleaning the gutters...

What's going on over the other side of the bridge? Infuriating.

Well that waterway just got bigger!

And you thought geography took thousands of years to happen...

That's what I was thinking!  Like, wow... Now I understand better how a river can accumulate a huge pile of stones in one place. It isn't (necessarily) that water budges a big stone 1 cm each year. 

Someone down below just became the owner of a quarry.

That’s a meat grinder

Gotta love the power of water and gravity

Time to go gold panning!

Nature casually putting multi ton boulders into a fluid state!

Instantaneous Death

Plants have left the thread

Innocently washing ass in a waterfall and then this..

Imagine finding urself in the path of death and destruction...then it jus diverts In another direction 🥴😳

Imagine what the landscape looked like during the Great floods during the Younger Dryus week. Had to be insane

Crazy how much it carved out the canyon Holy fuck

"rock avalanche" lol it's a landslide

I bet the rock eating dog in Neverending Story would be in hog heaven!!

I came here to say “a rock avalanche? You mean a landslide?” That definitely feels more like a rock avalanche…

On the cover of the rolling stones

Camerawork nil points. Balls 10/10

This is a "Lahar".

Depends if a volcano is involved right?

Yes. Lahar needs a volcano. This one we call "Murgang", a kind of Mufflow.

That rocks

The big rock 🪨 went with the Flo

How many phones are buried alongside their Darwin Award winning owners?

Amazing how it just scours every living thing out of the canyon

Gravity always wins

That was scary, glad they aren't as common as snowslides 😬

Rock 'n' Roll

Crazy how nature can go from such peacefulness to complete chaos in the drop of a dime

The casual power of that is frightening

That escalated quickly

I was "The Boulder" was really over his conflicted feelings.

There’s hard water, and then there is this.

That was way bigger than I expected!

That could hurt someone. Why wouldn't you try to stop it? /s

Level 100 Geodude... *Geodude use Rock Wave*

Mudslide, just with some rocks

Der is gold in them thar hillz

That's a flood

That was cool

Geodude used Rock Slide

I’ve gotten to see a massive snow avalanche in Torres Del Paine and it’s weird to me that this sounds “gentle” by comparison. I was probably 1000 yards away (so a comfortably safe distance) but it sounded exactly like you took all the lumber from a lumber yard and threw it down a canyon. This just sounds cute.

They showed a lot of trust

This is called a rockslide

Imagine finding urself in the path of death and destruction...then it jus diverts In another direction

Imagine what the landscape looked like during the Great floods during the Younger Dryus week. Had to be insane

Jesus

As a true alpha male, those are the streams in which I regularly bathe my balls.

Surf it.

Gandalf got too carried away raising the river to stop the Nazgul.

Imagine coming down to the crick to dip your toes in and holy hell reigns down upon you out of the blue.

And that’s how smaller rocks are made.

thers no digging yourself out of that one.

It’s unimaginable what that could do to a human body getting caught in that.

Talk about rough currents.

The way the rocks flow with the water almost make it seem like they're falling in slow motion

Gentle (ha) reminder that nature is and always will be more powerful than humans. I mean, we do a LOT of damage, no doubt. But this is next fucking level.

Amazing how it changed the whole water way.

How do you get all these rocks up again to where they came from? 🤔

Dam


They see me rollin!

(Rockslide coming toward camera) Camera operator: Ima pan over to this grassy hillside.

That's a debris flow

WHAT THE HELL?! 💀💀💀💀💀😱😱😱😨😨😨

Wow, that’s some amazing, terrifying footage.

r/dontlivejustfilm

erosion is a very slow process that takes hundreds if not thousands of years Switzerland — hold my beer

When a billion tons of rock becomes liquid. How crazy that is.

I've been up close to undammed rivers in the pacific northwest at flood stage raging through canyon, but this is a whole other level of respect for nature.

People who film using this orientation are dumb.

I bet when this happens to hills and mountains it feels like taking a big poop.

The power of water is just damn scary.

Normal for the European Alps. A lot of videos on them.

how does cameraman knew there will be rock avalanche, any signs to tell?

That is a crushing experience

Imagine if u ended up in there u would be pulverised

Camera person has a lot of trust for the height of that bridge.

Looks like a place from Walking with Dinosaurs. 🤩

The power of water is awesome I wonder how much gold was in all that

That’s where they should book the next Trump rally

Dude doesn’t have a wider lens?? Ugh

That’s the first place I would consider standing while tons of mountainside are coming toward me.

A landslide?

Mother nature so crazy she can make solids behave like liquid. Insane.

Looks like a flash flood

I like how beautiful and serene it was before the murky rock water came down

I watched the PRT (like a shitty monorail) get smashed by a slide like this a WVU. Fucked the poeple up inside. No infrastructure at all in West Virginia. Just coal and racism

Hm, what would rock tumbled bones look like? -the camera guy, probably

You mean "landslide" lol

Also known as a landslide

You mean land slide?

This day and age I don't know what to call real and what AI anymore. I call this AI.

Something big up there had taco bell

r/killthecameraman

Actual video of the toilet after eating Taco Bell.

TIL a rockslide or a landslide is actually a snow-filled avalanche! Lol