The Hope Slide ( ) was one of the largest landslides ever recorded in Canada. A landslide is a geological phenomenon which includes a wide range of ground movement such as rock falls deep failure of slopes and shallow debris flows which can occur Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page It occurred in the morning hours of 9 January 1965. Events 475 - Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople. Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. An earlier, small avalanche had forced four people to stop their vehicles a few miles southeast of the town of Hope, British Columbia (150 km east of Vancouver), on a stretch of the Hope-Princeton Highway below Johnson Peak. This article refers to the natural event For other uses see Avalanche (disambiguation An avalanche is an abrupt and rapid flow of snow often Hope is a District municipality with a population of 6185 located at the confluence of the Fraser and Coquihalla rivers in the province of British British Columbia (ˌbrɪtɨʃ kəˈlʌmbiə ( BC) ( (la Colombie-Britannique C Vancouver (vænˈkuːvɚ is a coastal The Crowsnest Highway, also known as the Interprovincial or in British Columbia the Southern Trans-Provincial, is a 1163 km (722 mile long principal As those people contemplated waiting for clearing crews or turning around, a small earthquake below the mountain triggered the main slide, which obliterated the mountain's southwestern slope.
The slide buried the victims and their vehicles under a torrent of 46 million cubic meters of pulverized rock, mud, and debris 85 m thick and 3 km wide, which came down the 2000-metre mountainside . This mass of debris completely displaced the lake below with incredible force, throwing it against the opposite side of the valley, wiping all vegetation and trees down to the bare rock, then 'splashed back' up the original (now bare) slope before settling.
On driving across the new highway across the debris field a traveler can only then truly appreciate the hopelessness of anyone caught in the slide's path, the massive size of the slide being reflected in the many large rocks the size of delivery trucks.
Rescue crews only found two of the four bodies—the others have remained entombed in the rock, with their cars, since 1965.
The slide , it was decided, had been caused by water eroding the connective soils to the rock base.
The highway has since been rerouted around and over the base of the slide's debris field. Most of the massive scar on the mountain face remains bare rock, without significant growth of trees or other large vegetation. It is quite easily visible from jet aircraft passing overhead.
External links
- Aerial photo and stereogram of the Hope Slide
- B.C. government landslide information
- Slide!, a program on B. C. Knowledge Network
- Views of the Hope Slide
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