The reference was to the elaborate Pulitzer-winning multimedia effort from late last year, "Snow Fall: Avalanche at Tunnel Creek".
("Snow Fall: Avalanche at Tunnel Creek," a separate section but all one article, was much longer still at 16,537, but did not technically begin on the front page, which is what we're measuring here).
"Snow Fall: Avalanche at Tunnel Creek" won a Pulitzer Prize, and since then, several other similar productions have been unveiled — among them "The Jockey," about the "winningest" rider of thoroughbred racehorses.
About two mountaineering deaths each year occur because of rock and ice fall, avalanche, falls, and hypothermia associated with severe weather (58 reported since and including the 1981 accident through 2010 per American Alpine Club Accidents in North American Mountaineering and the NPS).
Former newspaper journalist Bill Lucey, for instance, wrote that the New York Times is rumored to have received four awards, for features ranging from John Branch's widely praised "Snow Fall" avalanche story to David Barstow's investigation of Wal-Mart's business practices in Mexico.
Electrocution, lightning, fall, avalanche, deterioration of disease by disaster, and landslide were analyzed as separate causes of death, since the cause of death in such cases was clear (Table 2).
The identified relevant contemporary processes in both drainage basins include rockfalls and boulder falls; snow avalanches; slush flows; debris flows; slow mass movements and creep processes; wash and chemical denudation; and fluvial transport of solutes, suspended sediments and bedload.
Similar to the monitoring of seismic events preceding an earthquake, AE may offer a means for non-invasive, in-situ, assessment of mechanical precursors associated with imminent landslides or other types of rapid mass movements (debris flows, rock falls, snow avalanches, glacier stick-slip events).
The large amount of sediments is explained by an initiation of the debris avalanche due to serac falls and snow avalanches from five separate places between 6800 and 7200 m asl over 3 km length.
Thus cornice fall avalanches will become a more pronounced natural hazard to the infrastructure in Longyearbyen.
As almost 50% of all avalanches were cornice fall avalanches, which are topographically controlled, we expect the same avalanche type distribution in the future.
