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What Is An Avalanche? The word avalanche is derived from the French word avalance meaning descent. An avalanche is a mass of snow, often mixed with ice and debris which travels down mountain sides, destroying all in its path. Avalanches are also called snowslides or snowslips. Avalanches are typically triggered in a starting zone from a mechanical failure in the snowpack (slab avalanche) when the forces on the snow exceed its strength. Avalanches usually gather speed rapidly and grow in mass and volume as they collect more snow. If the avalanche moves fast enough some of the snow may mix with the air forming a powder snow avalanche, which is a type of gravity current. Massive avalanche slams into Everest base camp following Nepal earthquake …show more content…

28, Canada: eleven people on snowmobiles are buried when two avalanches hit Harvey Pass, a popular backcountry snowmobile destination in British Columbia. Three snowmobilers survived, while eight others remained buried. 2009 Jan. 26, Turkey: an avalanche slams into a group of 17 Turkish hikers on Mount Zigana, dragging them more than 1,640 feet and killing 10 of them. 2012 March 10, Afghanistan: an avalanche hits the village of Daspai. Fifty-six people are confirmed dead, while another 145 are presumed dead. April 7, Pakistan: an avalanche hits a Pakistani military base near the Siachen Glacier region. Dozens of soldiers and contractors are buried under snow. It is declared the worst avalanche to ever hit the area as 129 soldiers and 11 civilians are killed. 2014. April 18, Mount Everest: at least 16 Sherpa guides die in an avalanche. They are fixing ropes for climbers at an elevation of 19,000 feet when the avalanche hit. It is the deadliest avalanche ever recorded on Mount Everest to date. 2015 April 25, Mount Everest: at least 18 people die and dozens are injured in an avalanche triggered by a magnitude-7.8 earthquake in central Nepal. It is the deadliest avalanche ever recorded on Mount Everest. Causes of an

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