The Benner pass rock avalanche cluster suggests a close relation between long-term slope deformation (DSGSDs and translational rock slides) and catastrophic failure

Attempts to correlate catastrophic rock-slope failures with specific palaeoclimatic regimes are still encumbered by substantial methodical uncertainties and imprecisions as well as the scarcity of dated CRF events. The mapped distribution of CRFs unequivocally indicates that structural predisposition is the most significant long-term control in forming CRF clusters.