It was 4:10am, April 29, 1903. In the coal mining town of Frank, in the Crowsnest Pass of the southern Canadian Rockies, most of the 600 residents were sound asleep. Then without warning, the peaceful night was shattered by the sudden roar of a landslide. Some 90 million tons of rock cracked away from the east face of Turtle Mountain, slamming into the town and earning Frank a place in history as the site of North America's deadliest rockslide. In less than 100 seconds, at least 70 people were killed.


On the Edge of Destruction The Frank Slide Story recounts the tragedy through personal stories of loss and survival, and explains the geological conditions that led to 90 seconds of hell on earth.