{"id":33629,"date":"2025-07-25T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/house-of-the-dragon-quarry-location-collapses-in-rockslide\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T14:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T14:00:10","slug":"house-of-the-dragon-quarry-location-collapses-in-rockslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/house-of-the-dragon-quarry-location-collapses-in-rockslide\/","title":{"rendered":"House of the Dragon quarry location collapses in rockslide"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The rockslide was at a closed slate quarry in Gwynedd<\/figcaption><\/p>\n
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Part of a hillside has collapsed in a disused slate quarry in north Wales where battle scenes from the hit fantasy series House of the Dragon were filmed.<\/p>\n

A huge rockslide and a thick grey cloud of dust can be seen in video footage from a trail at Dinorwig Quarry in Gwynedd.<\/p>\n

Aran Jones, 21, from Sling, Anglesey, was returning from a hike up Yr Wyddfa<\/a>, also known as Snowdon, and trying to film goats when he heard “cracking” sounds and saw falling slate.<\/p>\n

“Next thing as I’m filming the whole wall just collapses… I was mind blown… the last thing I expected to see,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“I kind of thought it might be a controlled demolition, but then I remembered the quarry’s been inactive since I think 1969.”<\/p>\n

Opened in 1787 above Llyn Padarn, the quarry was at one point the second largest in the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is part of the slate landscape of north west Wales, which is being developed as a tourism destination since becoming a Unesco World Heritage site<\/a> in 2021.<\/p>\n

The quarry was also a key filming location<\/a> for House of the Dragon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Gwenydd council said the site was privately owned.<\/p>\n

Mr Jones was back in north Wales from his studies at Cardiff University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Aran says he heard “cracking” sounds and thought it was a controlled demolition<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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“Luckily for me there’s a massive pit under the ridge [between Aran and the slide],” he said. <\/p>\n

“I thought it was alright, but the minute I started to feel worried was when the couple I saw came sprinting down from the hill. <\/p>\n

“Seeing the fear on their faces that like kicked in my flight or fright.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A slate wall at Dinorwig quarry<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Like the couple, he said he started to run as well.<\/p>\n

“I was like, ‘God!, what if this is like a chain reaction? What if there’s more collapses all the way down the quarry?’<\/p>\n

“So I just started running with them out of like sheer instinct.”<\/p>\n

Mr Jones said there a number of off limits areas in the quarry, but he came across climbers who were heading to climb in the quarry that day.<\/p>\n

He said he showed them the video and some said they were “looking forward to climbing the new routes that had been made from the collapse”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Jones was trying to film goats when he captured the rockslide on his phone<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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It has had the opposite effect on Mr Jones. <\/p>\n

“The main takeaway is just be careful. <\/p>\n

“When I was there you could hear the slate dropping… cracking… the advice I would give is if you can hear any of that, just get as far away as possible.” <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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