‘I REMEMBER IT LIKE IT WAS YESTERDAY’
Jul 24, 2022
2 minutes
By Courtney Greatrex
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Courage and resilience are two words that will always be used to remember the ski resort town of Thredbo following the 1997 landslide.
On July 30, half an hour before midnight, the village in the New South Wales Snowy Mountains was overcome by 1000 tonnes of earth. The noise was described as sounding like an approaching freight train.
The thundering mud destroyed two
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