When hot weather made glacier travel untenable, they returned to Lituya Bay and radioed a request to be … The giant waves of Lituya Bay An Alaska Science Forum article by Ned Rozell. They are lucky to be alive. Among the survivors were William A. Swanson and Howard G. Ulrich, who later provided accounts of their observations. The giant wave of Icy Bay The Icy Bay landslide on October 17, 2015 was larger than the amount of rock and soil that slid at Lituya Bay, but the Lituya Bay wave was larger because it fell from a higher elevation into deeper water. World's Tallest Tsunami A flying boat dropped Paddy Sherman’s mountaineering expedition at Lituya Bay on June 17, 1958.

The Mega-Tsunami of July 9, 1958 in Lituya Bay, Alaska . Analysis of Mechanism . When discussing tsunamis it is good to discuss that some tsunamis can reach hundreds of feet high if the conditions are right. This video interviews two survivors that were swept up over the tree line during this tsunami. In 1958 that is what happened after an landslide generated a 1720 foot tsunami. Over the next three weeks, the climbers made the second ascent of Mount Fairweather, a first ascent of an unnamed peak, and had come within 200 feet of the first ascent of Mount Lituya.