Hope Slide flypast

A flypast by the Hope Slide, approximately 80 mes east of Vancouver, British Columbia.

The Hope Slide was the second largest landslide to occur in Canada. It happened in the morning hours of January 9, 1965 in the Nicolum Valley in the Cascade Mountains near Hope, British Columbia. Four people were trapped and killed on Highway #3 in the valley below. Two bodies were recovered but the other two remain entombed under the rocks. The volume of rock involved in the landslide has been estimated at 47 million cubic metres.

The slide displaced the ice and mud in Outram Lake below with such incredible force that it threw 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.