crowsnest pass

These pictures are of the Frank slide which is on the crowsnest pass. At 4:10 in the morning on April 29 1903, 82 million tons of rock thundered from Turtle Mountain and buried part of the mining town of Frank. In less than 100 seconds, the slide covered 3 square kilometers of the Crowsnest valley under a layer of rock 30 meters deep. It is estimated that more than 90 people died. When you stand at the view point looking over the valley, it feels very eerie yet peaceful, and it's hard to imaging what the noise must have been like.