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4 March 2016
Kalimpong Day 2: landslides on the eastern face
Kalimpong Day 2: the second day of the SHAMROCC visit involved a visit to several landslides on the eastern face of Kalimpong.
2 July 2015
Darjeeling: 38 killed and 23 missing in landslides
Yesterday heavy monsoon rainfall triggered at least 25 landslides in Darjeeling, northern India, killing at least 38 people.
19 February 2015
Paglajhora: another progressive road failure video
A video on Youtube shows a road collapse event that destroyed a truck at Paglajhora in Darjeeling. The landslide was a part of a much larger and very active slope failure that seems to have been initiated and exacerbated by poor slope management practices
28 July 2012
A landslide is rapidly destroying a World Heritage site in India
The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, a World Heritage site, has been closed by a landslide at Tindharia
9 December 2009
Presentation of lanslides caused by Tropical Cyclone Aila in Darjeeling
The Savethehills blog has an interesting presentation on their website focusing on the landslides caused by Tropical Cyclone Aila in Northern India in May this year. It can be accessed here: http://savethehills.blogspot.com/2009/12/cyclone-aila-in-photographs.html
24 August 2009
A bad summer for landslides in Darjeeling District, India
Regular readers will know that I occasionally highlight the great work being undertaken by a small group of concerned citizens, Save the Hills, to raise awareness of landslides in Darjeeling District in northern India. This work is profiled in a blog, Visions of Hell, run by Praful Rao. As this is an area affected by the SW Monsoon, the summer is the main landslide season in this region. Although the …
16 June 2008
Landslides in Darjeeling, India
In September 2007 intense monsoon rainfall in the Kalimpong region of Darjeeliing in Northern India triggered large numbers of landslides, killing at least seven people. This has brought to the fore the issue of environmental degradation and the consequent landslides in Himalayan environments. Darjeeling is a microcosm of problems arising throughout the Himalaya, with rapidly increasing numbers of landslides causing major problems. Darjeeling is probably most famous for its tea …
Dave Petley is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. His blog provides commentary and analysis of landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.
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