love seeing this as an yorkshire expat and student of geography i know the area well and its geological history and this is mighty impressive!

Amazing! Visited lots of times and often imagined water flowing over the top. Thank you for the amazing sight!

Thanks for sharing this wonderful sight at a much - loved place.

It's like a glimpse into the past. Amazing.

Brilliant piece of footage, thanks for sharing. Been here quite a few times. Would have been nice to witness it.

Thanks for getting this on film, it is a wow !!!

Wow, never thought I'd ever see that!

Many thanks for capturing this moment! Quite something!

Thanks for sharing this. Been there many times on childhood holidays: never imagined seeing an active waterfall happen there!

Thanks so much for sharing this. I visited Malham several times as a kid/youth and never saw such a spectacle. Brilliant, thanks.

Super video kitesu, thanks for going out in that awful weather to get this video!

Stuart, many thanks for sharing this amazing video with us all - makes up for never going stunt kite flying with you

Amazing to be there and catch that.. Once in a lifetime opportunity. I was lucky enough to be in Berlin in the Forces and visited the east side and stood on the wall the morning and night it fell. Even met Helmut Kohl and got a picture of him at Checkpoint Charlie. Once in a lifetime moments from being in the right place at the right time.

What a fantastic sight .....thanks for posting.

amazing footage, thanks for sharing it

thanks for sharing

Does that now officially take over from High Force as Britains highest waterfall????

@daleswildswim

8 жыл бұрын

+Angie Holly Whilst its flowing its probably Englands highest single drop waterfall above ground (Gaping Ghyll is the biggest but its below ground). Surveyed by the cave divers earlier in the year, the cove waterfall drop measures just over 70 metres.

@3970paulmason

5 жыл бұрын

I thought it was hardraw

WoW! Thanks for sharing!

Amazing video...

Great video ... Thankyou :)

Incredible!

That's actually amazing!

Hi kitestu, Extraordinary footage! Would it be possible for The Telegraph to feature your video on our website? Best, Olivia

@mra2zee

8 жыл бұрын

+Ricardo Shillyshally hahahaha you're comment wins the internet

Fantastic

Hi, kitestu; We'd love to feature/embed this great video on the ITV News website/programmes - would this be OK with you? (I'm gutted I couldn't get there yesterday to see it - amazing! Tom)

@daleswildswim

8 жыл бұрын

+ITV News Happy to share it Tom - Stuart Gledhill, Malham

@bigted1236

8 жыл бұрын

+kitestu I hope they are paying you ;)

@dopiaza2006

8 жыл бұрын

+kitestu You just missed out on a whole load of cash - that they now have!

@cleralc

8 жыл бұрын

+dopiaza2006 They linked to his video

@conniesinclair2250

8 жыл бұрын

+dopiaza2006 It's sometimes not about the money, Kitestu kindly shared this beautiful video with the World.. All credit to him, well done! :))

Wow. Amazing.

Wow amazing

Amazing!

Amazing 😮

6 people dislike this? (Currently 419 like it). What goes through your head to make you dislike something like this? If you dislike something, you should at least comment to say why!Thank you for sharing what could be a unique moment. Like many others I love Malham Cove. I would love to go back in time to see it as a full Niagara Falls type waterfall, all that meltwater pouring over the cliffs. But I'm not exactly Doctor's companion material. 😕

@misspellany1503

8 жыл бұрын

+Kevin Futers Some people dislike anything they don't understand. Or maybe they don't get the significance of this. If they don't live in the UK and don't know about the recent deluge and weather, they might simply not be able to see that significance.

@TheGrufflings

8 жыл бұрын

Fair enough. Personally I would only ever put on a dislike if I found something objectionable.

@misspellany1503

8 жыл бұрын

+Kevin Futers Yes - same here - or if I find it really really bad (shaky, blurry, etc. or really awful music....)

Flicking heck!!

Wow!🤗🤗🤗

brilliant!

Bloody hell Wow what a sight.

Amazing. Definitely a WOW moment. Thank you.

HISTORY IN THE MAKING FANTISTIC.

Looks cool

Cool video only saw the cove from the road we have a Dale's magazine from the 80s that records a similar rare event that occurred in the 30s may have been written by w.r. Mitchell

Yeah, wow!

Just imagine what it looked like when water tumbled over the entire width! Maybe they could block up some of the holes where the water goes underground and make this permanent :p

Excellent Stuart. I'm guessing Oscar didn't fancy going for a paddle. How long, I wonder, before the usual little stream that emerges at the foot starts to show increased flow?

Wish I had seen it! Isabel Swann

Amazing! The wind is pushing the curtain of water to the side! But where does all this water go?

@daleswildswim

8 жыл бұрын

+Miss pellany Into the beck at the bottom which becomes the river Aire and eventually down via Skipton, Keighley, Leeds and out into the Humber. The water under normal circumstances disappears down sink holes about 1 mile up the valley from the Cove and bypasses the Cove and Malham village entirely underground, emerging at Aire springs about 1/2 mile below the village. The amount of rainfall on this occasion overwhelmed the sinkholes allowing water to flow down "Dry Valley" for the first time in centuries and thus over the top of the Cove, giving us the spectacle you see here.

@misspellany1503

8 жыл бұрын

+kitestu It is quite amazing! I love it. But for people who live nearby and have never seen water coming down that wall before it must have been even more spectacular!

@daleswildswim

8 жыл бұрын

+Miss pellany Thank you, yes - its always been a sort of rural myth that water used to come over the top after very heavy rainfall. Not a myth any more!

Great video, and to think almost 40 years ago I played in the cave under the waterfall on a school trip. Any chance of some footage from the top or is too dangerous?

@David Graham You what? His title says "Malham Cove as never seen in living memory". It would appear to be absolutely accurate. The word "extreme" is used twice, as far as I can see: once by the people who are doing a programme about such weather, and once by YOU! It's suggested as being very unusual, confirmed by two pretty elderly people, so why are you so uptight about it? We know that human existence is less than an eye blink in geological time, so we didn't need it pointing out in such a sarcastic way. Anyone would think you're a climate change sceptic... It's very interesting footage of an unusual event, and deserves better treatment than you gave it. Thanks to the original poster for putting it up.

@daleswildswim

8 жыл бұрын

+Michael Boardman Thank you, my reply was going to be more concise and rude...

@Junkazama1

8 жыл бұрын

Shutup.

never underesimate the power of water and other natural phenomena

wowwwwww just show you how the world is changing

Is this because of a new tectonic uplift or because it's raining unusually much ?

@daleswildswim

8 жыл бұрын

+shoppingcity yes... ;-)

I bet in the summer you will be able to seer all the carvings...

Excellent. Just hope all the water doesn't flood people?

did you get any film of the dry valley above the cove?

@daleswildswim

8 жыл бұрын

+Route Martin Sorry no, went back later and did go up Watlowes but only got photos. It was quite weird because the dry waterfall at the top was a raging torrent. If you are a facebook user, have a look on a group called "we love the yorkshire dales". There were quite a few posts there with photos from "dry valley"(which wasn't), including mine.

We did our Duke of Ed here and many school trips...amazing place anyway, but this is surreal....our planet seems to be getting a bit fed up with us humans!

Hi Stuart, I work for Raw TV and we are doing a programme on extreme weather in the UK. I would love to use your amazing video in the programme if possible? Thanks a lot!

@daleswildswim

8 жыл бұрын

+Emma Supple Please contact licensing@jukinmedia.com who I have licensed this video to. Stuart Gledhill.

@ggnmsn

8 жыл бұрын

+kitestu My last name is Gledhill too! Small world :)

@daleswildswim

8 жыл бұрын

+ggnmsn We get everywhere don't we :-)

If this is happening at the cove then Gordale scar must be an absolute torrent ! Did you get any footage ?

@daleswildswim

8 жыл бұрын

+dougofhgate Sorry no, but there were some FB posts about with footage from Gordale, looked pretty scary!

by heck . i went there the other day . the whole family can get a shower for christmas . had a faint taste larger . win . win

Last time I walked over that I think it was this Easter

I suppose you have to see what it looks like normally to appreciate this because it doesn't look like anything special otherwise.

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Was this at the time of the floods around Yorkshire ?

@daleswildswim

4 жыл бұрын

This was storm Desmond which affected Cumbria and the Scottish Borders the worst, tens of thousands of homes flooded around Carlisle, Keswick, Kendal and Appleby. Bridges were washed away in several places... The major floods in Calderdale, Yorkshire happened 3 weeks later on Boxing day 2015.

Gutted. I was going to go to Malham to test my new gopro on the 6th.. and decided against it and went and filmed a climb up pen-y-ghent instead!!!

When was this active then?

I'm sure would be an awesome ice climb if somehow it would freeze. Hope it dries up soon, nothing worse then a wet climb.

I don't get it. Someone explain it to me.

Having never been there, perhaps you could explain what this rare moment is so ignorant people like me can understand?! Is it just a dry river bed at the top where we can't see?

@daleswildswim

3 жыл бұрын

www.malhamdale.com/malhamcovewaterfall/

@pjchosen

3 жыл бұрын

@@daleswildswim thanks!

someone tell me why this is such a big deal?

Maybe proof of global warming, if no one can remember there being a waterfall before. I wonder if there are any old pictures from over 100 years ago of there being a waterfall? Great video, although Oscar seems pretty uninterested : ) TU

@tonythatjesusloves

8 жыл бұрын

+shellsbignumber2 maybe proof of rain . you dip stick global warming is made up to tax you

@daleswildswim

8 жыл бұрын

+shellsbignumber2 There are some old line drawings in a publication from about 1780something but no photos. Oscar doesn't appreciate natural features (except when they stink), he's funny like that....

Hi kitesu - I work for Fox News we would like to pay you £10,000000 to feature your video on our website

@yorxman68

8 жыл бұрын

+mra2zee Cunny funt!

I don't get what's awesome some explain

@13thearl

8 жыл бұрын

+Thisisreallylongnameitsawesomeyay Sackboy This is a limestone area with a dry valley emerging at the top of the cove (Big Cliff). Normally the water flows underground and emerges at the foot of the cliff. This means the limestone must be completely saturated to allow surface water. Unheard of in this part of the UK.

@kavitiko335

8 жыл бұрын

+Thisisreallylongnameitsawesomeyay Sackboy Water has not flown over this cliff in hundreds of years due to the geology of the area. It's an ancient waterfall, carved back by glaciers during the ice age iirc, and has been more or less bone dry ever since.

What happened I'm a bit thick😂

@daleswildswim

6 жыл бұрын

The waterfall doesn't normally exist, but unprecedented rainfall caused water to flow down the dry valley above and over the lip of the Cove - a phenomenon which was recorded about 200 years ago, and has occasionally happened as a minor trickle since - but never seen in this volume in living memory.

Hi kitesu - I work for Fox News we would like to pay you £10,000000 to feature your video on our website