Never thought I'd one day spend 20 minutes looking at mud and want more. It's mesmerizing in it's own terrifying way, can't pull your eyes away from it! What a truly awesome force of nature
@@viperus1234 I'd like to see the confluence of that. Ingenious v-bottom self clears like a sewer. What a spectacular landscape you live in, thanks for sharing. You got too close for comfort!
I was glad to see you step up the hill a little when that flow got closer. Such a good example of the logs, boulders and rocks are such a heavy part of the flow at the beginning. The sound is amazing. The power of water! Thank you for sharing this!
I have seen lots of videos of this. I wish someone would show where this starts and explain why there are so many big boulders every time. and than show where this goes through town and where it ends. amazing for sure. stay safe.
It's in Switzerland, I saw that there is a canyon or hills which easily gets eroded after rain and comes down with the debris and joins the river which carries it over. It's pretty normal at illbregan from what I saw on UA-cam.
The Illgraben has its source in a big cirque that was formed by a gigantic rockfall. Its steep slopes erode due to freezing water in cracks and other weather phenomena; the debris accumulates in the cirque. Whenever there are large rainstorms in the region, the water quickly runs off through the Illgraben, liquefying the gravel and boulders in gigantic debris flows. In the lower portions it has formed a large debris fan, which has displaced the Rhone, the river it empies into all to the other side of the valley. This region has been a major barrier for travel, which is still reflected in the languages of the region. Upstream of the debris fan the language is High Alemannic (a German dialect), downstream it is French.
@@georgecable5261At the bottom of the chute it drains into the Rhône river and flows down to Lac Lemon between Montreux and Geneva Switzerland, which must be a terrifically deep glacial lake carved in the last 20,000 years during the last peak glacial period, because it has not yet filled up with all of this debris.
Practically a concrete flow. So thick with mud and rocks. Never seen a flow this large before. I imagine that if an animal was caught in that, then this may be one way a fossil begins.
Thanks for the excellent video footage held in one place to see the phenomenon change over time. I would have liked to have seen if the water got clear later on.
@@atanacioluna292 that takes a long time... most of the time, night falls and video recording produce bad quality because of low light ... maybe next time ..
"Flood Fronts" in Australia would have thousands of dead trees, and ground litter at the front of any wave. Millions of tonnes would appear 10 metres high before you say any water. Gum trees lose their lower branches as they grow. That is why you see them all around the world. Firewood + Whole tree to mill.
Impressive stuff right there! I think some kind of documentation about the source(s) of these flows as well as how rivers are not completely dammed up would be interesting. Cheers!
@@viperus1234 On the other hand, being up close and personal where huge rocks are peeling away might not be a terribly comfortable recording environment. :-)
@@thetruthstrangerthanfictio954 everybody knows... and there are sirens, signs and emergency dep. will warn you per sms text. But they can be a lot larger... I mean huge huge ;) landslide.. and it only happen when it rains ..
Wouldn’t that technically just be rain falling on the mountains? After all, it’s got to collect and start flowing first. It would be relaxing to listen to, though
That's outrageous footage. Looks like wet concrete with the biggest aggregate ever. One thing about being in front of that flow, you never know how far, fast, and high it could get. You DO have some historical high watermarks with the banks. I think you'd be darn near dead if you fell into that, you'd be beaten to crap with those rocks, fast.
You should never underestimate the power of nature, especially floodwaters, i mean do you actually know what is being carried along under all that murk with all that power?
The force of water is truly incredible, the size and weight of some of those rocks 😮 It just shows erosion in action and how over geological time scales whole mountains can wear away. Great vid, must have been awesome to be there 👍😎
Looking at this, I was just thinking, I used to be a hobby prospector, and sometimes used a small dredge in the river, but was blocked from doing that anymore because i might make the water cloudy, I though that was a little strange considering what mother mature does with things like this. LOL
Thank you very much for this excellent video presentation which is very much appreciated. The people are absolutely delighted with the work that you have done in producing this film.
They're watching the upstream spillway from under the roadway bridge. Suddenly Godzilla mud monster appears over the upstream spillway and they're thinking "Hey, why don't we climb further on up the bank here". Yikes
impressionnant ! et je ne connaissais pas, et pourtant j'habite autour de lausanne....comme quoi on ne peut tout connaitre......!! salutations vaudoise
Holy shit that intimidating at the start imagine being under the centre of the bridge and seeing that coming towards you I’d be scrambling to get to higher ground thinking “oh shit oh shit oh shit OH SHIIIT!!!”
What are the parameters that determine the periodicity of the flow surges? How do total flow volume, flow viscosity, particle size, % water to solids, clay percentage, etc govern the time between surge peaks?
@Christiaan Baron The entire French Alp range is being pushed from the direction of Italy. It's constantly moving and being built up. Same for most mountain ranges.
@@PhilJonesIII Actually, many of them are. Even things like carbon dating...it has been found that over significant amounts of time, sunlight actually increases decay considerably.
QUESTIONS! Where's it coming from? Where's it going to? And is there more than one flow from the source? I would like seeing one of these in person. Thanks for sharing your video with me. Stay safe, Vickie
Comes down the mountain every time a big thunderstorm hits the place. It goes down the river of the Rhone and you are very welcome to visit Switzerland and see for yourself ;) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illgraben
A gentleman named Pierre - Emanuel Zufferey has released an excellent video about the origins of the flow. The flows are frequent in late Spring and Summer. I hope you get to go.
In the American Southwest, you'll find dry washes all over the place. They're fascinating places, full of great cobbles, very inviting places for off-road driving and camping ... ... except. Let a thunderstorm blow up thirty miles upstream, far enough away that there's not a cloud in the sky where you are, and about an hour later the flash flood will hit. And when you're *in* the dry wash, there often isn't an easy or quick way for a vehicle to get out. That's why locals -- or anyone who's seen how fast a wash can fill with churning debris-laden water -- know that you don't hang out in a dry wash. You cross one quick. You drive along it up on the bank. You camp above it -- but you don't spend more time *in* it than you absolutely have to. Even if it's a hot dry day.
It's form of flash flood. The debris flow starts with rain on the mountain, which collects between the mountains and runs down the channel like a river. But the source is the rain, and sooner or later it stops. Thus the channel dries up between rains. All the debris originates from the side of the mountain that collapsed long ago. Look at his other videos, and Google Illgraben. It's fascinating.
thx so much for this video. es hilft mir viel Events in geology zu verstehen weshalb manche canyons wie "mosaic canyon" so scharf ausgewaschen sind. und das Wasser mit mud so schwere Steine kann bewegen. Es ist die faszination für die natur, die Kraft und das Verstehen für die Entstehung der Erde im manchen Orten. So vielen Dank sehr viel für diese lange Aufnahme. 🙏🤗
That Debris have a lot of Power. I bet that you feel the rumble under your Feet. Thank you for Uploading. Where was this Event? When Rocks of this Size jumps you know there is much Energy behind.
Didn't felt my feet :) full of adrenalin :) but it is loud like a train rushing by - this is in switzerland - illgraben: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illgraben
Post10 is upstream with a rake like "damn!"
😂
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Never thought I'd one day spend 20 minutes looking at mud and want more. It's mesmerizing in it's own terrifying way, can't pull your eyes away from it! What a truly awesome force of nature
makes me addicted :)
@@reallymysterious4520 look at ua-cam.com/video/GE6w1936_7k/v-deo.html
you see the river of Rhone, washing away the crap ;)
im always shocked at how easy boulders that weigh almost as much as a house are just tossed around. '
@@viperus1234that's a beautiful background also.
@@viperus1234 I'd like to see the confluence of that. Ingenious v-bottom self clears like a sewer. What a spectacular landscape you live in, thanks for sharing. You got too close for comfort!
It must be the most exciting time for a rock in its life
rock-show ;)
@@viperus1234 9999
@@오경달-t1k 🌈6666🌈
Or a Rock Lobster !
No rock ever lived....
I was glad to see you step up the hill a little when that flow got closer. Such a good example of the logs, boulders and rocks are such a heavy part of the flow at the beginning. The sound is amazing. The power of water! Thank you for sharing this!
yes, the side walls are not stable and may break down in the flow 😆
The power of gravity!
Everytime I see one if these, the size of the boulders that get carried along is amazing!
I have seen lots of videos of this. I wish someone would show where this starts and explain why there are so many big boulders every time. and than show where this goes through town and where it ends. amazing for sure. stay safe.
The silt that eventually becomes fertile soil, filling in the landscape to grow wealth.
It's in Switzerland, I saw that there is a canyon or hills which easily gets eroded after rain and comes down with the debris and joins the river which carries it over. It's pretty normal at illbregan from what I saw on UA-cam.
The Illgraben has its source in a big cirque that was formed by a gigantic rockfall. Its steep slopes erode due to freezing water in cracks and other weather phenomena; the debris accumulates in the cirque. Whenever there are large rainstorms in the region, the water quickly runs off through the Illgraben, liquefying the gravel and boulders in gigantic debris flows. In the lower portions it has formed a large debris fan, which has displaced the Rhone, the river it empies into all to the other side of the valley.
This region has been a major barrier for travel, which is still reflected in the languages of the region. Upstream of the debris fan the language is High Alemannic (a German dialect), downstream it is French.
Now that's some serious power! Imagine falling into that rock tumbler. Mush.
Thanks for sharing and having real sounds and not music! Best of luck!
first line of descriptiion: ua-cam.com/video/nI3ykbV-6kU/v-deo.html no music version ..
I'm always amazed when the first thing you see is a wall of massive boulders sliding along, and the wet soupy stuff comes at the very end.
Like to see where it goes into the river to the left.
Just like 'all you can eat burrito night' at the pub!
@@georgecable5261At the bottom of the chute it drains into the Rhône river and flows down to Lac Lemon between Montreux and Geneva Switzerland, which must be a terrifically deep glacial lake carved in the last 20,000 years during the last peak glacial period, because it has not yet filled up with all of this debris.
its crazy to see how it pushes those rocks like its nothing, really cool video!
That looks more like a massive concrete mix flowing. Great caption. Be safe.
Lol, was about to ask the same.. Which country has this beautifull clean blue water? 😂
I can only imagine how loud that must have been in the flesh and sheer awe at the power of that flow. It looks like a cement mixer dumped it’s load
The sound is incredible & thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks for the shots of the town. It's nice to have that context.
little overview :)
That debris being pushed ahead of the water can grind a person to hamburger.
It looks like the mountain is pooping cement.
I would love to see a video of them constructing this concrete channel and the meter thick walls used to center/slow the flow.
Magnificent way of returning glass to nature. All crunched up into sand.
straight recycled to a concrete, high speed, delivery ;)
Wow it looks like concrete!!! With boulders!
I love the thud of the mud flood!
Practically a concrete flow. So thick with mud and rocks. Never seen a flow this large before. I imagine that if an animal was caught in that, then this may be one way a fossil begins.
The sheer power of water is off the charts amazing!!
Brave of you to get that close mate! awesome and terrifying in equal measure, thanks for the view :).
Thanks for the excellent video footage held in one place to see the phenomenon change over time. I would have liked to have seen if the water got clear later on.
@@atanacioluna292 that takes a long time... most of the time, night falls and video recording produce bad quality because of low light ... maybe next time ..
"Flood Fronts" in Australia would have thousands of dead trees, and ground litter at the front of any wave. Millions of tonnes would appear 10 metres high before you say any water. Gum trees lose their lower branches as they grow. That is why you see them all around the world. Firewood + Whole tree to mill.
Impressive stuff right there! I think some kind of documentation about the source(s) of these flows as well as how rivers are not completely dammed up would be interesting. Cheers!
a lot of work, but lets see - it may need one more lockdown to do stuff like this ;)
@@viperus1234 On the other hand, being up close and personal where huge rocks are peeling away might not be a terribly comfortable recording environment. :-)
It looks like the traps are created with certain distance in order to basically crush the stone and timber floating.
How fertile is the contents of the flow? - Could it be used once it stops as a source of nutrients to be spread on the neighboring lands?
@@frankiesan_FT23um.....it's full of rocks?? I don't think the farmers would be too happy with that.
Wow that water moves fast!!
Man, look at those huge rocks and logs. I have never seen anything look so dangerous!
can be unpredictable bigger, get way out of hand ;)
@@viperus1234 could you imagine walking down that riverbed not knowing such a flood is coming until you hear that water with the rocks and logs?
@@thetruthstrangerthanfictio954 everybody knows... and there are sirens, signs and emergency dep. will warn you per sms text. But they can be a lot larger... I mean huge huge ;) landslide.. and it only happen when it rains ..
Yes indeed. Imagine the terrible damage it would do to one if they were to fall in. Unimaginable. You would be killed/pulverized in seconds.
And that's all you need to know about water carving out the land over millennia! Thanks for posting.
Amazing footage!!! Great Work!!!
Tx ☺
Use of a drone at the source would be interesting as well.
Wouldn’t that technically just be rain falling on the mountains? After all, it’s got to collect and start flowing first. It would be relaxing to listen to, though
What "source?”
Sure Jimmy.
We all carry one around. . . hoping for flash flood.
Oh look kids, It's going to rain.
Load a drone.
Honey bring your drone along hiking. No wait bring the trekking poles. We are hiking not playing.
Looks like fresh cement flowing!
Otherwise known as the Ilgraben Vindaloo.
That's outrageous footage. Looks like wet concrete with the biggest aggregate ever. One thing about being in front of that flow, you never know how far, fast, and high it could get. You DO have some historical high watermarks with the banks. I think you'd be darn near dead if you fell into that, you'd be beaten to crap with those rocks, fast.
You should never underestimate the power of nature, especially floodwaters, i mean do you actually know what is being carried along under all that murk with all that power?
This where cement comes from !!
we got plenty of this stuff ;)
I wonder how many geology teachers use footage like this in their lessons?!
Well this was awesome! Totally took my stress away watching it.
a relaxing bawush .. 😂🤣
For me there seems to be something relaxing to this
so it is making this clips, just came back 5 hours waiting for the perfect T-storm :) spend 60 $ on transportation - all for nothing ..
The force of water is truly incredible, the size and weight of some of those rocks 😮 It just shows erosion in action and how over geological time scales whole mountains can wear away. Great vid, must have been awesome to be there 👍😎
It is impressive, felt the ground - vibrating .. 🙂
Large boulders are being swept along like toy boats. Mother nature is impressive AF.
Looking at this, I was just thinking, I used to be a hobby prospector, and sometimes used a small dredge in the river, but was blocked from doing that anymore because i might make the water cloudy, I though that was a little strange considering what mother mature does with things like this. LOL
a little cloudy with 10 tons of mother natures finest obstacles 😀
Thank you very much for this excellent video presentation which is very much appreciated. The people are absolutely delighted with the work that you have done in producing this film.
Thank you, hope to add some more 😊
Just insane it’s like cement
Wow, I thought I was looking at water and then it was huge rocks!
I would swear the boulders float like beach balls in that flow. It's so counter-intuitive.
@@andie_pants
They do
This was incredible! It was at least….. twice as much as my last bm.
They're watching the upstream spillway from under the roadway bridge.
Suddenly Godzilla mud monster appears over the upstream spillway and
they're thinking "Hey, why don't we climb further on up the bank here".
Yikes
yes dangerouse, always have an eye on this Godzilla, how much rain comes down over time, space on location, evacuation plan ..
@@viperus1234
Better to be careful than to be ground to a pulp between the debris and washed into the Rhone...
impressionnant ! et je ne connaissais pas, et pourtant j'habite autour de lausanne....comme quoi on ne peut tout connaitre......!! salutations vaudoise
vaut le détour, agréable de faire de la randonnée et de manger, salutations de l'Oberland bernois
It’s almost like a wet cement but with sticks and boulders
Holy shit that intimidating at the start imagine being under the centre of the bridge and seeing that coming towards you
I’d be scrambling to get to higher ground thinking “oh shit oh shit oh shit OH SHIIIT!!!”
was pretty close .. 😂🤣 and swetty 😆
So this is how Wendy's makes their Frosty's... 🤔
Looks like a giant milkshake. Something Willy Wonka would be proud of.
What are the parameters that determine the periodicity of the flow surges? How do total flow volume, flow viscosity, particle size, % water to solids, clay percentage, etc govern the time between surge peaks?
the main parameter between two events is the rainfall, it needs a big downpour of water, therefore volume and visc is given
I bet that was cool to see it in person!
Oh yes, an adventure :)
'
wow beautifully flash river...
thank cloudy bring heavy rainy rainy rainy allday - allnight - everyday - everynight...
keep continus gooing more rainy
The only thing that I think is scarier than this, In terms of water flows, are lahars
this one can be significant bigger and faster !!! 😳
Me after eating Taco Bell
Looks like the shoot from a cement truck lol
Would be such a good kayak ride!
After watching this for years and seeing how much soil and rock comes from these mountains ..... its amazing that they haven't just melted😉
@Christiaan Baron Maybe????
@Christiaan Baron The entire French Alp range is being pushed from the direction of Italy. It's constantly moving and being built up. Same for most mountain ranges.
@Christiaan Baron I guess all the measurements we have been taking are wrong then.
@@PhilJonesIII Actually, many of them are. Even things like carbon dating...it has been found that over significant amounts of time, sunlight actually increases decay considerably.
When watching these flood videos I'm always afraid the camera will catch bodies going by.
What happens after drinking 10 ounces of magnesium citrate
a scourful flow
After seeing this I had to go out and get me a chocolate shake!
Excellent video! It must have been deafening to be there.
kind of dangerous, never know how much is comming down, can be a lot more, can be a lot faster ...
@@viperus1234 I can imagine that falling in would be a short-lived experience with not much left to find afterwards. Boots might survive.
@@PhilJonesIII and camera 😁
@@viperus1234 haha! You are right! There have been a few times when I've come close to injuring myself while making sure my camera was safe.
Wow! Huge boulders tossed around like ping pong balls.
Betting theres Gold nuggets in that flow.
I go out and dig the deep steps 👍🤣
The sound as it approached was scary cos I didn't know what to expect. The awesome power of water.
it is very dangerous... it can fill up - way to high ...
Looks like flowing cement!
QUESTIONS! Where's it coming from? Where's it going to? And is there more than one flow from the source? I would like seeing one of these in person. Thanks for sharing your video with me. Stay safe, Vickie
Comes down the mountain every time a big thunderstorm hits the place. It goes down the river of the Rhone and you are very welcome to visit Switzerland and see for yourself ;) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illgraben
@@viperus1234 That's incredible. I've never seen anything like that.
@@simplyamazing880 be careful is addictive
Most intelligent asked so far ?
A gentleman named Pierre - Emanuel Zufferey has released an excellent video about the origins of the flow. The flows are frequent in late Spring and Summer. I hope you get to go.
I wasn't expecting such big rocks
Giant never ending cement flow. With boulders.
mother nature regretting taco bell at 1 am
That's impressive. Imagine that it doesn't even need to be raining were you are, all you need to be is down hill.
Yep, - here you can see up the mountain and the rain will be visible, but if you dont know .. bawushhh ...
In the American Southwest, you'll find dry washes all over the place. They're fascinating places, full of great cobbles, very inviting places for off-road driving and camping ...
... except. Let a thunderstorm blow up thirty miles upstream, far enough away that there's not a cloud in the sky where you are, and about an hour later the flash flood will hit. And when you're *in* the dry wash, there often isn't an easy or quick way for a vehicle to get out. That's why locals -- or anyone who's seen how fast a wash can fill with churning debris-laden water -- know that you don't hang out in a dry wash. You cross one quick. You drive along it up on the bank. You camp above it -- but you don't spend more time *in* it than you absolutely have to. Even if it's a hot dry day.
@@Tindometari made the antelope slot canyons, the Zions park slot hike and the best, the Buckskin Gulch trail ... love it ...
It's form of flash flood. The debris flow starts with rain on the mountain, which collects between the mountains and runs down the channel like a river. But the source is the rain, and sooner or later it stops. Thus the channel dries up between rains. All the debris originates from the side of the mountain that collapsed long ago. Look at his other videos, and Google Illgraben. It's fascinating.
That looks more treacherous than the sea, im sure the sound on this video doesnt do it justice.
Very loud ... 🙂
That looks like a flash flood of wet concrete. I'm glad I live on the coast.
thx so much for this video. es hilft mir viel Events in geology zu verstehen weshalb manche canyons wie "mosaic canyon" so scharf ausgewaschen sind. und das Wasser mit mud so schwere Steine kann bewegen. Es ist die faszination für die natur, die Kraft und das Verstehen für die Entstehung der Erde im manchen Orten.
So vielen Dank sehr viel für diese lange Aufnahme. 🙏🤗
macht süchtig 😁
An awesome viewpoint, but please be careful. Thank you for sharing.
WOW Its like a huge concrete flow
Can you imagine hearing that in the middle of the night in the dark 😯
😖😣😱😮😮
That Debris have a lot of Power. I bet that you feel the rumble under your Feet. Thank you for Uploading. Where was this Event?
When Rocks of this Size jumps you know there is much Energy behind.
Didn't felt my feet :) full of adrenalin :) but it is loud like a train rushing by - this is in switzerland - illgraben: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illgraben
now imagine if it was boiling hot, that would be a lahar, where this is just a mud flow
when this was a lahar, I wouldn't be there - show me your Lahar clip ;)
Nature is truly impressive...
the ground was shaking ;)
The forbidden chocolate shake.
it looks like flowing concrete
These boulder are measured by tons :)
What do you mean erosion, this looks like concrete, amazing!
Reminds me of the morning after a night on the beer finishing with a Ruby Murray…….!
Greetings from the BIG SKY. Now, that's some erosion there.
Looks like a flash flood of cement.
Where is the inner tube last one in is it.
So you’re thinking rocks get excited???….ah yes evolution at its finest
Rock - Show
Imagine some dude down the bottom with a trowel, desparately trying to smooth it all out.
if your down on the bottom, there is no comming back 😎
@@viperus1234 but he could be laying all that slurry for a new walmart carpark.
@@theravedaddy we like more an Elon battery car park here. Walmart - isnt it the same as ordering from AliExpress?
My toilet looked like that the other night after to many Prawn Pakora's
Did anyone else notice that as it went over the second precipice the Top was not yet wet? Crazy looking…
collition between the big boulders let dust rise ..
That’s how they made Phoenix, a giant concrete river
This is the inside view of my mouth after eating 20 White Castles far to fast.
Looks just like wet concrete.
Looks like ready mix concrete!
Looks like concrete with debris in it!!😮😮
Flowing like concrete