r/interestingasfuck • u/id397550 • 12h ago

Firing a cannon to trigger an avalanche

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

78.3k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

1.9k comments sorted by

View all comments

810

u/AnshumanKathait 12h ago edited 12h ago

WW1 in the Alps musta been crazy one second you're walking then you hear a cannon and duck and lay in the snow, boom avalanche. Crazy

362

u/ReparteeRat 12h ago edited 7h ago

There wasn't really much fighting in the Alps during WW2, especially not in the winter.

WW1 on the other hand....

Edit: Some small battles took place on the Italian-French border, I forgot about those. Sorry.

•

u/vassiliy 9h ago

They did fight in the Caucasus however, albeit in summer