Slide Wipes Out Peruvian Town
Slide Wipes Out Peruvian Town
Clip: 361415_1_1
Year Shot: 1962
(Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1693
Original Film: 035-006-01
HD: N/A
Location: Andes Mountains
Timecode: 00:35:55 - 00:37:20
Slide Wipes Out Peruvian Towns One of the worst disasters in modern history wiped out 16 settlements and villages huddled in the shadow of the Peruvian Andes. Aerial footage of Mountain range (Andes mountains). Millions of tons of rock, mud and ice, loosed by melting snows, roared down the mountainside to bury more than 3,000 people. People clean up the aftermath and a priest says a prayer (last rites) over the rubble. Villagers.