Post by The Phantom on Sept 9, 2015 5:25:08 GMT 8
I was looking for those tunnel openings again earlier this year.
We know where they should be.
You can walk right up to them and not SEE them or any SIGN of where they are today.
Either they were closed up on purpose after the war like the Infantry Tunnel in James Ravine, (Which I slide into on my back years ago at the insistence of EXO, "just suck in your stomach, you can fit in!" I did, well worth the snug entrance) or the sheer volume of bomb and shell induced rock fragments and soil, simply flowed down hill due to gravity, or maybe the monsoon rains after the war ended, to cover the tunnels up.
Looking at the pictures you furnished Fots, it's pretty obvious that the tunnels were cut into the steep hillside.
Does anyone have a picture showing that road going in front of those three tunnels--- from Malinta Main Tunnel--- to the south shore road around Malinta Hill?
I'm wondering how much of the old road in covered on it's eastern edge, from, as stated, the sliding debris off Malinta Hill............ Because as we know, the top of that hill was lowered by at least 12 ft, right? Don't get me started.......
At any rate that hillside is still sliding down today.
It's still pulverized rock, that's why the trees on its western slopes are so huge today, great for tree roots and water storage to a certain degree.
How much of the present road is still on the same level as it was when those pictures were taken with the three tunnels showing?
Maybe the present road is also elevated.
Lets get those guys who found the lost German treasure train in Poland to give us a hand..........
We know where they should be.
You can walk right up to them and not SEE them or any SIGN of where they are today.
Either they were closed up on purpose after the war like the Infantry Tunnel in James Ravine, (Which I slide into on my back years ago at the insistence of EXO, "just suck in your stomach, you can fit in!" I did, well worth the snug entrance) or the sheer volume of bomb and shell induced rock fragments and soil, simply flowed down hill due to gravity, or maybe the monsoon rains after the war ended, to cover the tunnels up.
Looking at the pictures you furnished Fots, it's pretty obvious that the tunnels were cut into the steep hillside.
Does anyone have a picture showing that road going in front of those three tunnels--- from Malinta Main Tunnel--- to the south shore road around Malinta Hill?
I'm wondering how much of the old road in covered on it's eastern edge, from, as stated, the sliding debris off Malinta Hill............ Because as we know, the top of that hill was lowered by at least 12 ft, right? Don't get me started.......
At any rate that hillside is still sliding down today.
It's still pulverized rock, that's why the trees on its western slopes are so huge today, great for tree roots and water storage to a certain degree.
How much of the present road is still on the same level as it was when those pictures were taken with the three tunnels showing?
Maybe the present road is also elevated.
Lets get those guys who found the lost German treasure train in Poland to give us a hand..........