{"id":29426,"date":"2018-12-10T06:20:04","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T06:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=29426"},"modified":"2019-02-13T07:51:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T07:51:33","slug":"spantik-basecamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2018\/12\/10\/spantik-basecamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Spatnik basecamp &#8211; that was close!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Spantik basecamp &#8211; that was close!<\/h4>\n<p>In August <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FPMrBO5I9cs\">Shanyan Anwer posted the following video onto Youtube<\/a>, showing an extraordinary near-miss for a camp, and its occupants, from a large boulder.\u00a0 The owner of the video is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shayaananwer\">Shayan Anwer<\/a>, who <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shayaananwer\/status\/1034403704450031617\">posted it on Twitter<\/a>:-<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FPMrBO5I9cs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Near-misses do not come much more near than that.\u00a0 The video was apparently shot at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitpost.org\/spantik\/152053\">Spantik basecamp<\/a>, located between Baltistan and Hunza in northern Pakistan. In fact the video, which is very short, is worth closer inspection. Early in the video the boulder can be seen heading down the slope towards the camp:-<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29433\" style=\"width: 215px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29433\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29433\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2018\/12\/18_12-Spatnik-1.jpg\" alt=\"Spantik basecamp\" width=\"205\" height=\"241\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-29433\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The first sign of the boulder at Spantik basecamp. Still from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FPMrBO5I9cs\">Youtube video.<\/a>\u00a0The video is by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shayaananwer\">Shayan Anwer<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Just how close this rock came to the camp, and the person holding the camera, can be seen here:-<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29437\" style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29437\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29437\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2018\/12\/18_12-Spatnik-2.jpg\" alt=\"Spantik basecamp\" width=\"223\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2018\/12\/18_12-Spatnik-2.jpg 223w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2018\/12\/18_12-Spatnik-2-184x300.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-29437\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The boulder as it flew over the camp at Spantik basecamp. Still from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FPMrBO5I9cs\">Youtube video<\/a>. The video is by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shayaananwer\">Shayan Anwer<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Next of course it comes terrifyingly close to another person:-<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29439\" style=\"width: 231px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29439\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29439\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2018\/12\/18_12-Spatnik-3.jpg\" alt=\"Spantik basecamp\" width=\"221\" height=\"293\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-29439\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A very near miss for a person at Spantik basecamp. Still from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FPMrBO5I9cs\">Youtube video<\/a>. The video is by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shayaananwer\">Shayan Anwer<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>This video does emphasise a few points about rockfalls.\u00a0 The boulder is tabular in shape, which in some circumstances can generate extreme mobility.\u00a0\u00a0 This happens when the boulder starts to rotate around its shortest axis, behaving like a wheel. In such conditions boulders are comparatively stable, skipping down the slope in large bounces. As the boulder itself is uneven, and the surface is very rough, the path is somewhat unpredictable.\u00a0 In this case the boulder appears to bounced away from the people located downslope of the camera, in part because it struck softer debris, which absorbed some of the energy of the rock.<\/p>\n<p>There is little doubt that this was a very lucky escape.\u00a0 That boulder could have struck any of the people or any of the tents.<\/p>\n<h4>Acknowledgement<\/h4>\n<p>Thanks to Fabien for pointing this one out to me. I had somehow missed it during the summer! It is a remarkable video.\u00a0 The video is by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shayaananwer\">Shayan Anwer<\/a>. Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KomalUzair\">Komal Uzair<\/a> for providing information about the origin of the film.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Youtube video of a near-miss from a large, tabular, highly mobile boulder at Spantik basecamp in northern Pakistan in August 2018<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":29437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[469,10,56,72,35],"class_list":["post-29426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-video","tag-featured","tag-pakistan","tag-rockfall","tag-south-asia","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}