Hope Slide

This article is about the landslide. For the Canadian band, see The Hope Slide (band).
The Hope Slide

The Hope Slide was a landslide that occurred in the morning hours of January 9, 1965 in the Nicolum Valley (49°17′56″N 121°15′49″W / 49.29889°N 121.26361°W / 49.29889; -121.26361) in the Cascade Mountains near Hope, British Columbia and killed four people. The volume of rock involved in the landslide has been estimated at 47 million cubic metres.[1][2][3] It is one of the two largest recorded landslides in Canada (along with the similarly sized 2010 Mount Meager landslide).[4]

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  2. ^ Mathews, W. H.; McTaggart, K. C. (1978). "Hope rockslides, British Columbia". In Voight, B. (ed.). Rockslides and Avalanches, 1, Natural Phenomena. New York: Elsevier. pp. 259–275.
  3. ^ Bruce, I.; Cruden, D. M. (1977). "The dynamics of the Hope Slide". Bulletin of the International Association of Engineering Geology. 16: 94–98. doi:10.1007/BF02591458. S2CID 131677186.
  4. ^ MacKenzie, Eric (4 August 2011). "Meager slide: One year later". Whistler Question. Archived from the original on 5 October 2021.