Visions of Hell

SaveTheHills(STH) is a group of concerned citizens who are raising awareness about landslides in Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya. Many landslides are the direct or indirect result of human interference and preventable if sufficient care is taken. As such, unless we begin a comprehensive and sustained program towards landslide management, prevention and mitigation, the consequences of ignoring years of human callousness will, in the future be devastating.

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

SaveTheHills survey of landslides near Dikchu (East Sikkim) on 27Mar2023

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  LANDSLIDE 2 Following media reports on a major landslide occurrence at Sokpay, near DIKCHU on 26Mar2023, we made a quick visit to the regi...
Sunday, March 5, 2023

Silences and biases in media and academic reporting of Landslide Disasters

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I recently came across a study done primarily on major US media networks titled 'How many deaths does it take for a disaster to receive ...
Sunday, February 26, 2023

ChatGPT's essay on 'Hazards in the Himalayas'

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Having heard so much about AI and ChatGPT, I decided to try it out and asked it to write a 1000word essay on 'Hazards in the Himalayas&#...
Tuesday, February 14, 2023

STH activities in Jan2023: Awareness programs with students from the USA on 03 & 21Jan2023

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One of the main roles of STH is to raise awareness about the landslide and environmental issues of this region and we do this thru the year,...
Sunday, February 12, 2023

Brainstorming discussion on “Landslides and Human Environment: A New Approach to the Study of Fault related Hazards in Himalayan Towns” : 11Feb2023

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 The program I am glad to say that the MOES PAMC, Geosciences online workshop was phenomenal  and had a huge collection of scientific minds...
Friday, February 3, 2023

STH Landslide documentaries being featured in Film Festival on 'Exploring Risk', at Durham University (U.K) -16/17Feb2023

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We just received news that the Institute of Hazard, Risk, and Resilience at Durham University (UK) is hosting 'The Exploring Risk 2023 F...
Friday, January 13, 2023

Why we should tread softly in the Himalayas...Pakyong, Sikkim, Nov2017

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While the sinking of Joshimath, in large part due to human activities has caught the attention of the nation, I was witness to a similar e...
Wednesday, December 21, 2022

What landslides do to people: A home at Sherpa Gaon (village), Lava (Kalimpong district, W Bengal) on 28Oct2021 and 20Dec2022

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This landslide at Sherpa Gaon (Lava, Kalimpong) occurred on 19Oct2021 at 3am, following two consecutive days of heavy rain. We met the owner...
Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Pathing landslides gets a full feature on Prof Dave Petley's Landslide Blog

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Prof Dave Petley's Landslide Blog is perhaps the most widely read 'online magazine' on Landslide Hazards in the world. So it is...
Saturday, December 10, 2022

Mapping rainfall in our region: NEW (DAVIS) AWS at Todey Village in Kalimpong station and location of Automatic Weather Stations (DAVIS) and Manual Rainfall Gauges.

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STH has been monitoring rainfall in our region for many years now and we publish these records each month in this blog.  The above map shows...
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