This article comprehensively discusses the domestic and international progress in the study of failure modes, prediction and warning, and prevention methods for high rock and soil slopes, and proposes several important problems and suggestions for solving them. The study emphasizes that a large number of human research achievements in this field should be carefully organized and corresponding technical consultation systems should be established to fully utilize them; For the existing key points, difficulties, and key issues, corresponding original research should be carried out, and the research results should be continuously supplemented into the established technical consulting system to make it more complete, scientific, and reasonable, and better benefit human engineering construction