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Avalanches

May 2024

  • Mountains with snow above buildings

    Two skiers killed and one rescued after avalanche in Utah mountains

    Search team find man who dug himself out of the snow, and confirm two men, aged 23 and 32, died near Lone Peak

April 2024

  • A helicopter flies above a treeline with snowy mountains in the background

    Avalanche in Austria kills three skiers from the Netherlands

    Group of 17 were ski touring near resort of Sölden when 80-metre wide avalanche hit

March 2024

  • An azure lake sourrounded by steep mountains with snow-capped peaks in the background

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Andean alarm: climate crisis increases fears of glacial lake flood in Peru

    In 1941, thousands of people died in Huaraz when the natural dam on a lake above the city gave way. Now, melting glaciers are raising the chances of it happening again

  • Japan avalanche: two New Zealand skiers killed and one rescued – video

    A man and a woman were taken to hospital unresponsive and were later pronounced dead while a third person sustained a shoulder injury, but was conscious

    • Two New Zealand skiers killed after avalanche in Japan

    • Extreme weather in Italy and France brings avalanches, floods and landslides

    • Late-winter California blizzard continues to rage in Sierra Nevada

February 2024

  • The Mont-Dore ski resort in central France

    Deadly avalanche in Auvergne region of central France

    Four ski mountaineers from a nearby club killed and three injured while off piste with a guide

January 2024

  • Snow on top of multiple cars and on the ground and roofs.

    One person killed after avalanche roars through Lake Tahoe ski resort

    Authorities say another person was injured as major snow and wind storm moved into the California region

December 2023

  • A selfie of Archie and Kate Vokes against a rural body of water

    Family of UK mother and son killed in Alps avalanche ‘beyond heartbroken’

  • Mont Blanc.

    Mont Blanc avalanche kills British woman, 54, and son, 22, in French Alps

October 2023

  • Tenjen Sherpa, a Nepalese guide, is reported missing along with the US climber Gina Marie Rzucidlo

    Two die in avalanches on Shishapangma mountain in Tibet

    American climber and Nepali guide killed in attempt to scale world’s 14th-tallest peak

September 2023

  • Ama Dablam in the eastern Himalayan range of Koshi Province, Nepal

    Himalayan avalanches are increasing risk for climbers in warming climate

    Experts warn that global heating is exacerbating inherent dangers of high altitude mountaineering

August 2023

  • Joe Yelverton in front of Eagle Peak, the site of the avalanche accident

    How we survive
    How we survive: An avalanche injured me – and killed my friend. Here is how I faced the PTSD, addiction and guilt

    After the accident, Joe Yelverton moved to another state, threw himself into work and tried to numb his feelings. But eventually he had to accept he couldn’t outrun his past

April 2023

  • Mountainside after avalanche

    Avalanche kills six people in south-eastern France

  • Contamines-Montjoie ski station shared footage on social media of the avalanche that killed five people in the French Alps

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    Deadly avalanche rolls down mountain in French Alps – video

  • A helicopter from the Swiss Air-Rescue REGA flies above mountains

    Nine skiers in Switzerland airlifted to hospital after major avalanche

  • Rescue workers onboard the rescue vessel Bergesen D.y. observing a house floating in the sea off the island of Reinoya some 60 km north of Tromso, northern Norway on March 31. Part of Norway’s Tromsø municipality was being evacuated due to deadly avalanches, police said.

    Avalanches in Norway’s Tromsø area kill four including skiers

January 2023

  • The Argentiere glacier in the French Alps

    British woman dies after avalanche in French Alps

    Forty-five-year-old and her partner were hiking with a mountain guide when accident happened

December 2022

  • Ben Nevis covered in snow seen on a clear day

    Ben Nevis climber dies and another injured after avalanche

    48-year-old man pronounced dead at scene and 40-year-old taken to hospital in Fort William
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