Two months after fatal landslide, a look back

It's been two months since the earth gave way under a group of fourth-grade students hunting fossils in Lilydale Regional Park. The landslide killed two children and injured two others.

As MPR News revisits the landslide, we speak with a geotechnical engineer about the kinds of things that can cause earth to lose stability in such an accident.

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