Serac fall seen from Whymper Saddle, Mt Cook National Park. It seems the glaciers are becoming more chaotic around rocky rollovers once supporting toes recede. 9th of November 2015
You can imagine being right at the bottom of the valley. "At least there's no chance it will make its way all the way down here" "Huh, it's getting closer but must be about to run out of steam" "Oh fck!"
The amount of secondary, tertiary material it brought down from the lower slopes and way it just flowed all the way down the valley is pretty frightening. Really shows the real dangers of traveling even miles away below these areas.
That was insane, few get to experience this first hand as yourself, glad you (both) were safe. Love the laugh out loud, serious reality response I feel.
didn't go donw there and cancelled our plans because the freezing level was way higher than foretasted, I mostly just said that to wind up future watchers of the video ;P
If I can ask the photographer the film this one question it would be. Did you ever consider that the bottom of the Shelf you're standing on or mountain side of snow could give away underneath cascading down eventually making its way up to your level?
we were having lunch at a local high point on solid rock with nothing above us so protected by gravity. But you are right in that nature is inherently dangerous and unpredictable, but that is why it is beautiful. Nature is danger.
@@ryantaylor761 Not if we stay out of its way and seek not that wet do not know at the price of life. Many have found out something new the moment before they died., what was learned? . Don't do that. Or that will not work. The info we seek is not life, and life is not to seek out life. But to see life as we are visitors of this place Not Of This World. We ate different then all here on this planet. We humans can't see that, but we sure do see the differences in one another. Live well my friend. Live well. Be free stay free where no walls divide you. 🙏☮❤♻️
@@ryantaylor761 I was just hunting through the comments before posting to check if anyone had noticed. Just weeks ago they did! I was going to ask if the coincidence meant they were both triggered by a small earthquake?
we were originally planning to go down into that valley but the temp was waay too warm, warmer than forecasted so avalanche/ rock fall risk was too high. So just decided to have lunch there and we noticed the rockfall increasing in intensity, so decided to get the camera out.
+snugglepuss2000"... video of the serac fall from the Whymper Saddle pass on November 9." www.3news.co.nz/nznews/dramatic-nz-glacial-collapse-shot-on-film-2015112113#ixzz3s7bl8j3h
What the video doesn't show is the 5 oz European Swallow that was carrying a 1 lb coconut from North Africa across the Alps to the Kingdom of Mercia becoming too tired to carry it any further and dropping it at the top of the snow field causing that whole event to take place. If it had been an African Swallow this whole thing might not have happened.
Quand le soubassement rocheux s'effondre sous le glacier, l'énergie potentielle de la masse glaciaire se transforme en énergie cinétique, qui se dissipe en chaleur générée par les chocs qui fragmentent les blocs de glace ou les fondent en eau liquide. Leibniz et d'Alembert auraient faits d'intéressants commentaires sur cette très utile vidéo (pour les enseignants). D'Alembert définit une opposition paradigmatique () entre deux notions reprises à Leibniz : .
Hello Ryan Taylor, is it possible to contact you regarding this video (i.e. via email)? We would be interested to discuss a license to use this video if this is generally possible to discuss? :) Cheers, Felix
@@ryantaylor761 Lol, nice comeback play, man. IMO, you called it correctly. Apologizing for the disrespectfulness from some of my U.S.countrymen in the comments. Greetings from a retired fellow climber. Awesome mtn. footage! Thanx for sharing, and stay safe out there.
Us know, after watching these new moraines made, I wonder how tall everest and k-2 were🤨? Just another reason kiwi is the extreme sports capitol of the world!
New Zealand has steady state erosion where the rate of erosion matches the rate of uplift hence why the range remains narrow and doesn't spread out under its own weight.
...and the stupid guy just laughs!🤦 Well bro, you're filming FROM the mountains, and she's hearing your laugh while she's telling no joke...Watch out when you're climbing down😂
haha, the NZ Southern Alps are in a state of steady state erosion where the uplift is same as the erosion rate, hence why it is such a narrow range. Major mtn ranges of the world get wider because erosion rate is too slow and the overlying weight of the mtns are too heavy to be further uplifted causing another adjacent range to pop up etc.
@@ryantaylor761 thank you for your reply . I find that the knowledge of our geology is so much greater these days than it was light years ago when I went to school . I am very much enjoying the enlightenment available to us from that socially destructive internet .
