The Vajont dam, 261 meters high. On 2 October 2015 the new Via ferrata della Memoria, also referred to as Via ferrata del Vajont, was inaugurated above the Vajont Gorge to remember the Vajont disaster ...

Dams have been a part of human history for a very long time, dating back to the earliest times of agrarian societies. The ...

How did Europe’s tallest dam become one of history’s worst engineering disasters? This documentary investigates the Vajont Dam tragedy of 1963, where a landslide created a wave that killed nearly ...

Pope Francis looks at photos of the aftermath of a massive landslide in October 1963 that killed 1,910 people in northern Italy during an audience with pilgrims from the Diocese of Belluno-Feltre and ...

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 ...

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 ...

A bird's-eye view of the massive scale of the Vajont landslide, which created a tsunami more than 800 feet tall that came crashing over the Vajont Dam, devastating the nearby village of Casso, Italy.

Residents of the valley of Vajont in Italy had reservations about a new hydroelectric dam--especially when cracks began to appear in the nearby mountain. Their worst fears were soon to be confirmed. A ...

The obligation to care for creation is not only about the environment, "it has to do with human life, as the Creator conceived and arranged it," Pope Francis told a group from northern Italy dedicated ...

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