On October 9, 1963, a colossal engineering marvel became a monument to human overconfidence. High in the Italian Alps, the Vajont Dam- then the world’s tallest- withstood the unthinkable: a massive ...

On October 9th, 1963, at 10:39 pm, 260 million cubic meters of rock fell down from Mount Toc into the artificial lake formed by the Vajont dam, one of the the higher dams in the world. The landslide ...

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Caption A photo taken from behind the Vajont Dam in Italy, where nearly 10 billion cubic feet of mountainside came to rest after crashing into a 600-foot-deep reservoir in 1963. Trees and other ...

At 10:39 PM of October 9, 1963, a landslide of 250 million cubic meters of land is detached from Mount Toc and falls into the artificial reservoir created by the Vajont dam, located in the northern ...

The Long Distance Duathlon World Championship due on 29th May in Barcis (Pordenone), in Friuli Venezia Giulia, is involving the whole Vacellina, one of the best known and most appreciated naturalistic ...

On 2 October 2015 at Longarone (Italy) the new Via ferrata della Memoria, also referred to as Via ferrata del Vajont, was inaugurated above the Vajont Gorge. Constructed by the Cortina Mountain Guides ...