Sentence examples for devastating avalanches from inspiring English sources

The goad, for Maack's generation, was a series of devastating avalanches in the Westfjords in 1995.

Extremely steep, cone-shaped volcanoes can partially collapse and create devastating debris avalanches.

Julia Leigh's devastating memoir Avalanche (Faber £12.99) is a brutal and graphic account of her increasingly desperate attempts to make a baby.

Areas devastated by avalanches, some as recent as the past winter, broke the continuity of the trail.

The injury was a huge upset for the team; former NHL goaltender Darren Pang considered it "devastating... to the Colorado Avalanche".

Canadian Nick Cienski said the climbers' camps had been devastated by the avalanche, which hurled gear, people and tents hundreds of feet.

In 1941 much of Huaraz was buried by an avalanche, and in May 1970 a devastating earthquake virtually leveled the entire city, killing about 10,000 residents.

Pyroclastic flow material passed over the moving avalanche and spread outward, devastating a fan-shaped area 23 miles across by 19 miles long (37 km × 31 km).

Mr Hain said: "This is devastating for us in Scotland, where an avalanche happened and swept us aside".

Her husband, Tsering Wange, told the BBC that her plan was always to do a double ascent twice, but her second attempt did not succeed in 2014 due to an avalanche and in 2015 because of the devastating Nepal earthquake.

The sweet and salty details we learn about the climbers make their demise — when it comes, by avalanche, slip or in a courageous rescue effort — all the more devastating.