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Still, what happened to Turtle Mountain is not unusual. Experts say about 1,000 rockslides occurred in the Rocky Mountains in the past 10,000 years. The Frank Slide stands out simply because of ...
Turtle Mountain is considered Canada’s most-monitored mountain and in the 113 years since the Frank Slide, scientists from around the world have come to the so-called field laboratory for research.
If you've ever driven down to Crowsnest Pass before you'll have noticed — it's hard to miss — that huge, Frank Slide. We're talking about 82 million tonnes of rock that came pouring down off Turtle ...
Some residents of the Crowsnest Pass witnessed a rock slide Sunday night on the same mountain that killed 70 people almost 100 years ago. A small part of Turtle mountain rumbled down the ...
At 4:10 a.m. the next day, nearby Turtle Mountain would come crumbling down, releasing 110 million metric tonnes of rock in Canada’s deadliest slide on record, killing around 100 people.
The landscape in the foreground, the lake, and the mountains in the background of Frank's Wild Goose Island image matched those in the "Turtle Mountain" photo. In 2019, Snopes created a collage to ...
Tomorrow — April 29 — marks the 118th anniversary of the Frank Slide — the deadliest rockslide ... a huge slab of Turtle Mountain — known as “the mountain that moves” by Indigenous ...
It's a short but steep hike to the top of Turtle Mountain overlooking the Crowsnest Pass, which offers a unique view of the Frank Slide. (Paul Karchut/CBC) Once you do get onto it, it's a pretty ...