Yigong Tsangpo landslide of 9 April 2000; picture taken 5 June 2002.
View east, downstream, from top of the landslide dam above the mouth of
the breakout channel.

Scour from the breakout flood of 10 June 2000 can be seen on both
banks, and a small post-flood landslide on the south valley wall.
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