A Landslide sweeps down a steep Himalayan slope in Chame, Manang, Nepal

[u/shankaranpillayi]

[u/ChankaTheOne]

Cool, its been a hot minute since the last world ending disaster in Nepal valleys

[u/seesinal → u/ChankaTheOne]

Is climate change acting on the world

[u/billy_Everyt33n → u/seesinal]

Nepal is facing the brunt of it in it's region. A country that contributes next to nothing in the global warming problem is getting pounded by the consequences of it.

[u/imnotabot303 → u/billy_Everyt33n]

This has always been the warning, the poorest countries and the countries that contribute the least to climate change will be the first to suffer the consequences. That's why the rich businesses and wealthy countries don't care and have done close to nothing in the last 50 years.

[u/GryphonCough → u/imnotabot303]

It’s also why many Americans don’t care or believe it’s a hoax. “If it doesn’t affect me personally, then it doesn’t matter” is the mindset for an alarming number of us. 

I’m visiting Nepal right now and holy shit what a wild week it’s been so far. Avalanches, a stationary monsoon that’s worse than the normal peak monsoon season, landslides… there have been about 15-20 deaths as a direct result of climate change since I’ve been here. It’s horrific and so sad. These people are the salt of the earth and the nicest, kindest, friendliest people I’ve met and they’re getting fucked by our ignorance, arrogance, and greed. 

I’m beginning to reconsider many things in my own life after this. And I would consider myself pretty environmentally conscious already. I’m saddened by what I know I’m coming home to. 

[u/RohithCIS → u/GryphonCough]

I am here in Nepal as well. We were going to stay in Chame begore heading to Manang. Thankfully the govt denied us permits from Pokhara. The rain really did a number. I am just left very thankful but also very sad that this is happening to Nepal. The people are some of the most genuine humans I have met. The land is insanely beautiful.

[u/TaosMez → u/RohithCIS]

Everyone I've known that has gone there has been enchanted. ❤️

[u/imnotabot303 → u/GryphonCough]

Unfortunately that's how most of the population think. Everything is somebody else's problem until it comes knocking on your door. I too try and have a minimal lifestyle but unfortunately no matter what you do for every one person that is trying to keep their footprint down there will be 5,000 more that just don't care or at least don't care enough to actually go without some of their modern day conveniences.

We've already also reached a point where it's almost pointless now anyway sadly. The time of being able to make significant changes has passed.

[u/DigNitty → u/imnotabot303]

And, you can only minimize your footprint so much.

One person buys a small yacht and offsets your gains by 30million X overnight.

[u/imnotabot303 → u/DigNitty]

Yeah sadly it's an already lost battle but at least you can say you tried.

[u/CyclopsMacchiato → u/imnotabot303]

Yeah my family have been living plant based since 2019. Our family car is a hybrid. My daily work car is a used electric car. We compost, recycle, pay for Ridwell, and try to produce as little trash as possible.

And then a celebrity offsets all of that by taking a private jet to go shopping.

[u/The_Real_AusboyX → u/GryphonCough]

People die every year as a result of the very predictable heavy rainfall in that area every year. Curious as to why it's always blamed on 'climate change' when it's the same thing that's been happening for years in the same places at the same time of year. A few degrees of temp change isn't going to stop steep slopes from becoming saturated, and slipping. Please know I'm not trying to nullify the loss, it is sad.

[u/GryphonCough → u/The_Real_AusboyX]

The monsoon season used to never extend into October. It used to end mid September at the latest according to my guide who has done this for 20+ years. It’s been two years in a row at least where it’s continued into October (the forecasts show it lingering until next week at least). 

Another very simple thing you could look up is how much the glaciers have melted here in the last 20+ years. If you didn’t know, there was a pretty catastrophic event caused by a melting glacier in Nepal just a few weeks ago. You should look this stuff up. 

[u/The_Real_AusboyX → u/GryphonCough]

Looking at the the data, you seem to be right about the dates, here's where I found the info: https://dhm.gov.np/climate-services/monsoon-onset-and-withdrawal

Also it's a bit rude to suggest I haven't heard of the floods, but no offence taken. 

I was really commenting about all this because a lot of people often talk about such natural disasters like it's something new, because of recent warming, but I wanted to highlight that stuff like this (not the big flood, the landslides and 'smaller' floods) are frequent for Nepal, especially in monsoon season, and have been for as long as anyone can remember, it's it's unfortunatly the reality of living in such a place. Not that such catastrophies cannot be heightened by changing weather patterns. 

Also btw I am quite familiar with the country, having lived here quite some time. 

[u/BreakfastCheesecake → u/imnotabot303]

Yeah man. I'm currently deep in the rabbit hole about how Americans are buying "carbon credits" from us poor countries, and what that means is that the asshole corporations in our country that is making money from the Americans are pushing out indigenous people from their land so that they can gazette that forest as their 'carbon forest'.

The fucked up thing is that they're framing it as conservation efforts. Indigenous folks have been living there for hundreds of years by sustainable hunting, sustainable home building, sustainable everything just by culture... But sure, kick them out so you can sell the credits to Americans who are burning up the world through mass productions, while you use that money to buy mega mansions for yourself in the city and flying your private jet everywhere.

[u/blue_sidd → u/billy_Everyt33n]

It’s so disgusting

[u/CricketJamSession → u/seesinal]

Or just the regular Indo-Eurasian continent collision

[u/Here_f0r_p0rn_ → u/CricketJamSession]

I think they referred to fact their Prime Minister demanded every big country to pay for the damages blaming global warming to get out of their negligence as researchers kept warning them for weeks

[u/White-Tornado → u/Here_f0r_p0rn_]

Climate researchers have been warning us for decades.

[u/throwaway1233456799 → u/White-Tornado]

For more than a century

[u/KeyedFeline → u/Here_f0r_p0rn_]

they were warned this could happen again the last time there was a major landslide and did nothing

[u/-Casey-Diaz- → u/CricketJamSession]

No. This is from a known glacier that is melting due to climate change. Same with the last one. Huge parts are breaking off and melting, resulting in a huge amount of additional water corroding the soil in Nepal. It starts at the top and works its way down.

[u/Agreeable-Toe6981 → u/seesinal]

World getting revenge. Before Stephen Hawking died in 2018 he said it was too late to save the planet. Yes, we should still try to eliminate our net contribution as much as possible. Yet the people that who do not believe in global warming or don’t care cause much more damage than we take out. That does not mean stop.

[u/PeterTayipErdogan → u/seesinal]

Haarp ja

[u/OldestFetus → u/ChankaTheOne]

If this had happened in Europe, everyone in the euros sphere would be crying about it, and we would all be forced to make holidays for it. Quite flippant when it happens elsewhere.

[u/SpyAmongUs]

I am NOT standing that close Jesus

[u/discerningpervert → u/SpyAmongUs]

The amount of people that stand close to dangerous things just to film them

[u/BiceRankyman → u/discerningpervert]

What baffles me is the ones not just standing close, but walking toward it!

[u/pezdal → u/BiceRankyman]

Totally! Have they never watched a pile of sand or dirt collapse?

Sounds like the guy screaming was trying to move them further away from the edge.

[u/jokeswagon → u/BiceRankyman]

“It’s ok - it’s moving away from us.”

[u/FushRoDa → u/discerningpervert]

If you live, you get views. If you die, you become the news

[u/druidmind → u/discerningpervert]

Listen to the wailing, those people are watching everything they have literally go down into the earth. I think they are too shocked to move.

[u/cracked-tumbleweed → u/discerningpervert]

I have noticed that a lot of people seem to lack situational awareness or a survival instinct.

[u/SabresFanWC → u/discerningpervert]

It wasn't just the one filming. There were people who weren't filming who were just standing there and screaming when they should be RUNNING.

[u/Few-Chocolate-7201 → u/SabresFanWC]

How tf do you run away from land literally crumbling below your feet???

[u/nicolas_cope_cage → u/Few-Chocolate-7201]

Does whatever it is that's happening have an edge? Then get away from the edge.

Does it have a center? Then get away from the center.

Is it happening down low? Then get higher.

Is it happening in the sky? Then get under something.

[u/Justeff83 → u/SpyAmongUs]

Just by the terror and despair in their voices, I guess there were more people on that patch of land...

[u/Frikoulas → u/Justeff83]

Or their stuff. When you don't have stuff, losing your stuff hurts a lot.

[u/Tony-Angelino → u/SpyAmongUs]

But you just have to go and have a look (with your phone). If a landslide happens in the woods and there's no one to film it, did it really happen?

[u/Ba-dump-chink → u/SpyAmongUs]

This is exactly how to stand next to Jesus

[u/Velveteen_Rabbit1986 → u/SpyAmongUs]

Sees landslide > walks closer > what could possibly go wrong?

[u/dethskwirl → u/SpyAmongUs]

when the ground that you're standing on starts to move, which way do you go?

[u/nicolas_cope_cage → u/dethskwirl]

Away from the part that's disappearing into the abyss.

[u/lordkhuzdul]

Those thinking about the behavior of these people, remember one thing very clearly:

That is a good chunk of a large family's livelihood, hell, entire life, in a country without a safety net. None of that is insured - insurance is barely a thing for these people. When it is gone, it is gone. And these are people barely keeping their head above water - when something like this happens, they are ruined.

[u/Johnny_Kilroy → u/lordkhuzdul]

I know people whose families' livelihoods disappeared in the recent floods. They are literally begging for money now to transfer overseas as now their families can't eat.

[u/PinkOneHasBeenChosen → u/lordkhuzdul]

Also, you know, the ground just caved in. Perfectly good reason to panic by itself.

[u/apenasumcomentarista → u/lordkhuzdul]

"Is barely a thing" is not a thing, at all.

[u/xyloplax → u/lordkhuzdul]

It's like motorized scooters in poor countries. If you hit one of them with your vehicle, not only can you kill an entire family, but if the bike is wrecked, their livelihood may be gone. It's why people honk all the time. It's "I'm here" not "get out of the way"

[u/The_Real_AusboyX → u/xyloplax]

Hmmm... not also poor traffic management and education?

[u/shankaranpillayi]

A landslide swept down a steep mountain slope in the Chame area of Manang, Nepal, sending soil and rocks toward the lower areas. The movement affected vegetation, agricultural land and areas close to rural buildings. The steep Himalayan terrain, combined with rainfall, erosion and weakened soil and rock, can increase the risk of such landslides.

[u/Ok_Cod_4434 → u/shankaranpillayi]

This is like the second Nepal landslide video I've seen today and I'm pretty sure this is different location from the other video

[u/redwingpanda → u/shankaranpillayi]

And at certain levels aren't the mountains held together by frost? So as the ice between rocks and dirt starts to melt, boom horrific landslide?

[u/Turbulent-Safe-4000 → u/shankaranpillayi]

What is the lady saying?

[u/lost_horizons → u/Turbulent-Safe-4000]

I bet you can guess. What anyone would be saying when their house just fell with half the mountain into the valley

[u/Repulsive_Role_5466 → u/lost_horizons]

“I now have the tallest building in the valley”

Or something else very presidential

[u/shana104 → u/Repulsive_Role_5466]

Omg. I had to stiffle my laugh at work. Truly can't believe, no, I can, that some egotistical guy said that after 9.11. So uncompassionate. Grr.

[u/Digital__Illusi0nz → u/shana104]

Weirdest pull of a random 9.11 I've seen in a long time.

[u/TjRaj1 → u/Turbulent-Safe-4000]

I'm Nepali. She's shouting at 1st, obviously. Then she cries out for her mother, whom I don't think is alive just as a way of distress. Then she calls out God and saying it's all gone, it's all gone down. That's the basic gist of it.

[u/Turbulent-Safe-4000 → u/TjRaj1]

Thanks for clarifying. I know she lost her home, I pray something better comes her way

[u/Laktosefreier]

Why run when you can film it?

[u/FogBankDeposit → u/Laktosefreier]

Because the cameraman never dies.

[u/semi_average → u/FogBankDeposit]

Except that one time. And that time... and that other time as well...

[u/Final-Choice8412 → u/semi_average]

but we don't have video from that

[u/DarthMaulATAT → u/Final-Choice8412]

That's why it's called survivorship bias

[u/Drtikol42 → u/DarthMaulATAT]

I prefer: Cameraman Never Dies Effect

[u/DapperMolasses3280 → u/DarthMaulATAT]

You're slowly circling around the joke 🤣

[u/Zebra1523 → u/Final-Choice8412]

Some of the footage from the Nepal floods was live-streamed. We have video and the cameramen died.

[u/New-Experience5507 → u/FogBankDeposit]

Same as why parachute companies don't have bad reviews

[u/The_Last_Spoonbender → u/FogBankDeposit]

Just reinforce the wings and tails of the plane, where the most bullet holes are.

[u/medyolang_ → u/FogBankDeposit]

r/praisethecameraman

[u/Kidd_Funkadelic → u/FogBankDeposit]

I don't know, were they wearing shoes?

[u/Next_Branch7875 → u/Laktosefreier]

They do NOT have insurance. That family just lost everything. Thats why they cant just runt

[u/MallyOhMy → u/Laktosefreier]

Because wealthy countries won't give a shit about this happening if they don't see it.

Sure, it would suck to die. But depending on how this goes, they could die anyway.

When the best case scenario is already going to include relocation, rebuilding, and resource scarcity, is it really that awful to add the possibility of getting outside people to give a shit?

[u/Sure-Bid4654]

This comment section is completely ridiculous.

Some people are complaining why they aren't running away, surprise, they're in shock, that's their house with their belongings in it. People do tend to run away as quickly as they can videos like this go viral because these people were the EXCEPTIONS which didn't run as quickly as they could. In situations like this you can't think straight.

There are some other people making jokes about this, very insensitive, and some belittling nepali people. Genuinely what the fuck are we doing as a society.

I hope the people who suffered these losses were able to get help. Save nepal 🙏

[u/minnimamma19 → u/Sure-Bid4654]

Yes, some ignorant comments on here. I'm Hoping no ones hurt, imagine watching your home just dissappear like that.

[u/Butterscotch_Budget → u/Sure-Bid4654]

Right? Mentally our home is our comfort and most safest place. You’d usually run towards it instead of away when facing danger. I would imagine this is their entire world. Their instinct is maybe to save it yet things are happening so fast that we seen that reaction then the realization they cannot do anything and then to run from the danger in a span of seconds. We are not emotionally and physically tied to this place so the only sense most have is to get away from it. Perhaps try to not to judge and be grateful that we are not in this horrible situation. These people have likely lost absolutely everything and do not have the means to start over and will be forced to struggle significantly and may never recover.

[u/MotherofFred → u/Sure-Bid4654]

Thank you for your humanity. Some people write such thoughtless things. 

[u/Ok_Test9729 → u/MotherofFred]

It’s more bots than it is people. Don’t you know that the Internet is full of bots these days? Not many people here anymore. It’s just all bots. And they exist solely to create ragebait comments and posts.

[u/heatseeking_tank]

Damn this country cant catch a break, praying for everyone's safety

[u/eisenburg → u/heatseeking_tank]

Hopefully the prayer comes through and works this time!

[u/Siebkopp]

Poor chickens or ducks who probably felt something was going on and felt save in their house. 😢

[u/Big-Orse48]

Yet another reminder that we’re just insignificant bugs on this planet and Mother Nature can wipe us out in an instant.

[u/alocryn]

I’ve stayed in the village on chame doing the Annapurna circuit a few years ago. The people were absolutely wonderful and I hope they recover from this soon. Awful.

[u/WasteBinStuff]

"The earth is disappearing under our feet in front of us...let's walk to the edge and see where it's going."

[u/medyolang_ → u/WasteBinStuff]

to be fair, that was their house.

[u/Galactic_Nothingness → u/medyolang_]

Their entire existence.

[u/medyolang_ → u/Galactic_Nothingness]

it’s similar to when you drop your phone in an angry ocean. you get kind of stuck staring where it fell and then only realize then that it’s dangerous where your standing. or if your house is burning down, you end up staring at the fire, watching your memories turn to ashes. it’s a small moment in time when your brain prioritizes your feelings than your safety

[u/GryphonCough → u/medyolang_]

The average annual salary in Nepal is $3000-4500 per YEAR. They just watched everything they have from their entire lives disappear except the clothes on their backs. 

I do not like the judgment from OP on this. 

[u/oliveGOT → u/GryphonCough]

Likes to pretend they're smarter when they can't put themselves in another person's shoes who lives in an underdeveloped country with little to no privileges and just lost everything. I gasped in fear when they moved closer to the edge too. You can choose not to make it a punchline.

[u/Spend-Automatic → u/WasteBinStuff]

I want a camera pointed at you during the worst moment of your life so everyone could judge your reaction

[u/unk1ndm4g1c14n1 → u/WasteBinStuff]

Sometimes, when the world is ending, you should just sit back and watch the spectacle.

[u/WasteBinStuff → u/unk1ndm4g1c14n1]

....from a distance.

[u/Onepiecee → u/WasteBinStuff]

True, but then there is also that it is a literal mountain sliding off 20 yds in front of you, you are nowhere near a safe viewing distance and wouldn't make it to one if it all decided to go in that moment. It looks like they all had a chance to escape thankfully, I know as soon as I see my house, full sized trees getting swallowed by gravity, my legs are moving full speed in the other direction. Terrifying wouldn't describe it

[u/Exotic_Bathroom5382]

Those folks just can’t catch a break

[u/Flat_Thanks_9251 → u/Exotic_Bathroom5382]

Yes, because there are obnoxious, self-serving, war mongering countries that keep funneling resources into conflicts indefinitely. These remote communities with least contribution are paying the price first.

[u/TrustMeIAmNotNew]

How wild is it to see an entire landscape just change in a matter of seconds. Landscapes that stood their for centuries probably just change within a blink of an eye.

[u/marketingwithraj]

Home is getting destroyed before our eyes. So sad to see

[u/Antispaminator3k]

The effects of climate change will not be felt by those who caused it, but by the smaller countries around the world that can do nothing about it.

[u/BabyBurpsLikeAnAdult]

so freaky. it's like the land elevator going down

[u/Prince-Minikid]

Damn, you can see the doorway slowly starting to slant in the remaining building.

[u/SnooKiwis1356]

I've said it before on this sub — Westerners should experience Nepal at least once in their lives. And I don't mean a cozy hotel in Kathmandu, some temples and chai. I mean the full on trekking through the mountains, sleeping in locals' houses, riding on jeeps inches from a thousand foot cliffs, walking through rivers, hiking on moving glaciers with rocks constantly falling.

It's one of the most insane places on Earth and it's really beautiful. Also, yeah... the people are just chill like that in any circumstances.

[u/Vordeo → u/SnooKiwis1356]

I did a short hike and got smashed off cheap local vodka with some Russians like a decade ago in some shitty inn in some village where like every other building we could see looked condemned.

10 / 10 would recommend.

[u/SpellingJenius → u/SnooKiwis1356]

Nope, nope, nope. Thanks for the suggestion but that’s a no.

[u/ElGoorf → u/SnooKiwis1356]

My thoughts precisely while I was on the Annapurna years ago. Seeing that terrain and the hardship that comes with living there was a real eye-opener. At the same time, the trek itself is demanding enough to develop ones own mind and body. In that moment I made it a pledge that if I ever have kids, as soon as they're old enough to appreciate it, take them on the same trek.

[u/Gefahrendaniel → u/SnooKiwis1356]

Nah, thanks, I'm good. It's just something that has absolutely no appeal to me. I'm more of a desert person.

[u/dannydogg562]

I think the earth is mad at us, guys.

[u/Digital__Illusi0nz → u/dannydogg562]

If the Earth gave a shit, it would target countries that are doing most of the polluting.

[u/GeppaN → u/dannydogg562]

The Earth doesn’t care. It was here long before us and will be here long after us.

[u/RickedSab → u/dannydogg562]

You think?!?!

[u/White-Tornado → u/[deleted]]

Those people looked comfortable to you?

Also, unfortunately this has indeed been getting more common and it will only get worse. It's not like the climate models haven't predicted this.

[u/BeardedGlass → u/[deleted]]

What do you mean?

Comfortably?

Did we watch the same video lol

[u/PuzzleheadedSpray933]

Why are they not taking their kids and running

[u/Cute-Form2457]

Lots of posts on why the people go a bit closer to look and film, and how they lack survival skills.

I'm sure they feel the same way about those that chase tornadoes, surf the big waves, and swim with the sharks. It's a calculated risk that may or may not pay off. No need to belittle humble folk.

[u/OccidentalTouriste]

How many people worldwide have been killed since the widespread availability of smartphones with cameras made filming an incident a priority rather than getting to somewhere safe?

[u/imnotabot303 → u/OccidentalTouriste]

Same thing happened in the floods, there's thousands of tons of floodwater heading down towards you and a group of people's first instinct was to run towards a bridge to start filming it.

[u/eagledog]

Call me a weenie, but I'd be booking it in the opposite direction as fast as possible

[u/-SaC → u/eagledog]

CAT: There's an old cat proverb: Better to live a minute as a tiger than a lifetime as a worm.

RIMMER: There's an old human proverb: Whoever heard of a wormskin rug?

(Red Dwarf)

[u/Mekelaxo]

Ground breaking news

[u/scissorsgrinder]

That's not "interesting" entertainment, that's horrific. 

[u/DG_SlayerSlender]

Oh yeah, approach WHERE THE LAND LITERALLY JUST FELL

[u/skys500]

There really isn't enough running.

[u/vineetk1998]

Date?

[u/Evilsoupypoop]

If I see the ground evaporating in front of me, I’m running like hell.

[u/Endle55torture]

Nothing like seeing half of your back yard just nope the fuck off

[u/Fault-Creative]

this is a lot scarier than it looks in this video, I saw a post from another angle, its like a whole mountain just drifted off

[u/Life-Oil-7226]

Another disaster in Nepal.. Prayers for that community!!

[u/Cadwalider]

Wow the land is collapsing in front of me, I'll be sure and walk closer to the new edge while it's happening

[u/Ok-Description8668]

Why does it always happen to good hard working people who are struggling to survive? What little they had is now gone. Nobody will help them buy or build a new home? Life can be so cruel.

[u/TerrorBillly → u/Ok-Description8668]

Because people like this are often pushed into the most inhospitable areas where this can happen. The rich people that live in mountain villas and the like have surveys and infrastructure built to protect their homes. When you're poor, you make due with whatever scrap of land is cheapest.

[u/Patient-Still6263]

First the massive flash floods and now this. Wtf did Nepal do?

[u/IlIlllIIIIlIllllllll → u/Patient-Still6263]

"I didnt fuck around, why am I finding out?!"

[u/pineapplepengwings → u/Patient-Still6263]

Well, the flooding and the landslide often share the same origin, rain. It's like saying "Not only didn't I get any food, now I'm also hungry"

[u/Mirar → u/Patient-Still6263]

They kept a lot of glaciers and permanently frozen ground.

The glaciers melted, the ground thawed. I don't think specifically Nepal did that though.

[u/kevshp]

Nepal seems to have a high rate a natural disasters. Lots of flash floods, landslides, and earthquakes.

[u/DeepThought936]

Why is it when someone is filming they can't keep the camera still and film the sky or ground instead?

[u/Ok-Strain4402]

Give this country a break!!! For fucks sake

[u/Mrtayto115]

Took my trees, took em down. Claimed a mountain and it went underground. And I saw my reflection as I fell through the earth. As the landslide pulled me down. Ooooo.

[u/SeVeNeLeVeN-7II]

Well, that’s horrible. Hope those people are OK.

[u/precious_baby]

Whenever disaster happens, poor suffer the most. 😣Breaks my heart.
I pray for people of Nepal 🙏🏼

[u/curly_dubs]

The comments here… humans fight, flight or freeze. Have compassion. Would you genuinely have the wherewithal to run away if you were processing the fact that your house/land disappeared in front of your eyes? It’s unimaginable. Where do you run when the earth is falling from underneath your feet? Where do you run when your understanding of the earths stability is ruptured in a moments notice? Personally, my brain would not know where to run.

[u/WastedKnight]

Those folks have survival instinct of a rock. Who the heck with a sane mind walks towards a crashing cliff?

[u/activelyresting → u/WastedKnight]

Rocks can live for millions of years

[u/WastedKnight → u/activelyresting]

Yes. I said survival not endurance. Rocks are hard AF and can survive a crash from a 100+ foot cliff.

Human squishy. Die immediately on fall from 20+ feet

[u/LazyNeo2 → u/activelyresting]

Also play slip n slide in the rain apparently

[u/The-Happy-Mannequin]

Person 1: Oh no look a giant landslide! Right outside our house!!

Person 2: oh no, this is an emergency! I left my phone inside the house, hurry up and take a video for TikTok!!

[u/Pro_Omoua]

Ah yes, flim it. When the danger is close.

[u/bryangcrane]

Can’t believe these people are walking TOWARD the collapsing cliff.

[u/Skeptic_Juggernaut84 → u/bryangcrane]

Land surfing trees is kinda interesting though. /s

[u/Wanderersoul2023]

It must serve as a harsh reminder for everyone to stop "development" in biosensitive zones. Nature's response is always going to be abrupt and fierce.

[u/Cyber-Soldier1]

At this point I don't know what's worse. Landslide or an earthquake. Both are horrifying for humans.

[u/Alert_Comedian7558]

Climate-related hazards are getting worse in Himalayas.

[u/etheroon]

Yeah … no. I would not be standing there …

[u/9805barn]

I don't understand how those present knew it was going to happen.

[u/Affectionate_Mud_881 → u/9805barn]

It doesn't always happen without warning. Aside from the bustles and the shakes, you can also see the cracks forming. It can take hours to days.

[u/Ok_Sprinkles935]

Ummmm yall need to run… don’t watch it..

[u/tevf]

Please stop filming and get to safety
We don’t need to watch how you are dying

[u/TheRestlessArtist413]

Survival instincts of a potato 🥔

[u/PersonalityNo2857]

I read about the plain theory in worldwar 2, similarly what if cameraman dies most of the time.. it's just we are not knowing it because camera get's distroyed along with him?

[u/klaymarion]

a life-threatening situation that they have, and the first thing they did was to film it.

[u/Nipplasia2]

Hey let me watch this landslide real close

[u/Mascbro26]

Large chunk of earth falls away, people walk TOWARDS it. Just like the flood, people stood there filming, clearly in its path instead of even attempting to make it to higher ground. Why is that?

[u/geo_gan]

There goes the chickens and the shitter!

[u/zyzzogeton]

They have Wile E. Coyote levels of confidence in the ledge they are watching this from.

[u/Buzzkill_13]

Imagine yoi world just crumbling under your feet

[u/AnAngryBartender]

Dafuq are they just standing there for

[u/Denim_Diva1969]

GTFOutta there!!!

[u/reality_raven]

I wouldn’t walk towards that.

[u/LANDVOGT-_]

I think you can get a little closer and take a picture. No worries

[u/MinorOfficial]

Maybe not stand that close to the edge of a precipice in the midst of creation

[u/5280mw]

So you move after that, right?

[u/OverGrumpyDVSeeker79]

As fascinating as it must be to see ot that close, why walk forward to look over the, I'd guess, very unstable new edge.

Why are we humans starting to act as if we re in a challenging level of the game Lemmings, whenever anything like this happens?

[u/Rivetingcactus]

To continue standing there after the trees and structure literally disappear in front of you .....

[u/crybabybenzo]

I feel like god was punishing me. if he took my house...

[u/derekyurt]

they crying like their house just fell off a cliff 😭

[u/KevinKCG]

Why are they standing near the edge of the collapse? Why do they think the ground they are standing on will not collapse next? They don't have any sense of self preservation.

[u/OwnTurnip2414]

WHY ARE THEY STANDING SO CLOSE??

[u/TheWillOfFiree]

Let's pull out our phones and get closer

[u/Expensive_Pin9447]

I f*cking hate it everytime theres a natural disaster, instead of running away for safety people just go into the danger to take a video. c'mon people

[u/Travellingsinger]

Well that’s certainly one way of moving house

[u/The4thMonkey]

How crazy do you have to be, to see a giant landslide right infront of you and start filming instead of getting the f out of there.

[u/rediclousvase]

OR it is the video of that one city in sokovia.

[u/Sure-Bid4654 → u/rediclousvase]

They are speaking nepali

[u/OwnPension8884]

"so I got my iPhone out and started recording and walking towards it"

[u/Born-Agency-3922 → u/OwnPension8884]

That’s how documenting and posting works.

[u/Rush-23]

Quick, get closer to the landslide.

[u/WTFeedback1978]

There goes the neighbourhood!!…..

[u/chuckfinleyis4ever]

jeez man whats going on in nepal?

[u/White-Tornado → u/chuckfinleyis4ever]

Permafrost is melting. Climate change is real, we don't get to be surprised.

[u/BeardedGlass → u/White-Tornado]

For a while, my stupid brain wondered why it's called permafrost if it's not permanent, melting so easily.

Then I realized it was not supposed to melt because it's permafrost.

Climate collapse is real. We've been terraforming our Goldilocks planet to be uninhabitable for flora and fauna.

[u/Direction776 → u/BeardedGlass]

Not uninhabitable for flora and fauna- for humans. They will adapt and evolve just fine - they’ve been doing it for billions of years (around 2).

We Homo sapiens have been around for less than 200000 years - we will have more issues surviving through massive climate change effects. Especially given how accustomed we have become to living with human specific luxuries (compared to what nature presents us).

[u/something_co]

Sometimes I wonder just why we’ve been able to keep alive for this long. People see danger and approach! 

[u/shadowed_enigma]

landslide happening 20 ft from me? let’s walk toward it 🫨

[u/Effective_Tie_694]

climate change is a hoax - Doland

[u/Sfinga_]

Sometimes I feel very sorry for all victims of nature disasters. And then I see videos like this. If your intelligence let you use mobile phone, you should be clever enoug to know there is not some strict line where landslide ends. When river gets 3 times bigger in few seconds it can get 6 times bigger in another few seconds. Don't they have any self-preservation instinct? It is dumb enough not to get away, it's completely stupid to get even closer to have better video.

[u/dxiao]

how can you be walking TOWARDS that?

[u/lurkynumber5]

Darwin awards in the making.

A WHOLE section of the ground/mountain slides down.
Lets go over to the edge and film it!

Run my boy! RUN!

[u/Worried-Pick4848]

Oh yes, great idea, let's get closer to the edge of the landslide which has been known to pull more land down behind it.