August 9 2012. This was one of largest of three ice falls off of the Ghost Glacier on Mount Edith Cavell near Jasper that happened within about a 20 to 30 minute period on the afternoon of August 9, 2012. The ice fell something like 2000 feet onto the Cavell Glacier. Quite loud. Much of the falling ice disappeared into the moat at the top of the Cavell Glacier. Sometime that night, almost all of the Ghost glacier fell off of the face of Edith Cavell into Cavell Lake below causing a tidal wave that swept down the the outlet stream, took out the lower part of the trailhead parking lot and flooded the road. It was extremely lucky that the glacier came down during the night. Half of the loop trail to Cavell Lake was in the path of the flood and many people would likely have been killed had it come down during the day.(LL)
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bareboards2*nsfw in the first 10 seconds only.
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bareboards2*how old was that glacier? gone in one day
The second view starts at 2:36
The third view starts at 3:58
Still photos of the destruction at 5:05
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probieIs it wrong that I wanted to run toward it? Not to get covered in ice and rocks, but just to get closer to something that natural and powerful.
dystopianfuturetodayAll Glaciers go back to the ice age (as far as I know), which was 2.5 million years ago.
Did the entire Glacier collapse or is that just snow? >> ^bareboards2:
how old was that glacier? gone in one day
The second view starts at 2:36
The third view starts at 3:58
Still photos of the destruction at 5:05
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