Sentence examples for huge avalanche from inspiring English sources

Romanian climber Alex Gavan tweeted there had been a "huge avalanche" and that "many, many" people were on the mountain at the time.

Earlier, Gavan had described his own close call, writing there had been a "huge avalanche" and "many, many" people were up on the mountain.

Her "elation" was short-lived as the one abusive tweet soon became a "huge avalanche" and included vicious threats of rape and other violence.

Langtang is a trekking region to the north of Kathmandu that has been hit by a huge avalanche and mudslides, while Lukla is the jumping off point for walkers and climbers making the nine-day trek to Everest base camp.

On Mount Everest, the evacuation began on Monday of hundreds of climbers trapped after a huge avalanche flattened the base camp, killing 18 and injuring 61 in the worst disaster to hit the mountain.

The snowstorm is one of Nepal's worst trekking disasters since 1995, when a huge avalanche struck the camp of a Japanese trekking group in the Mount Everest region, killing 42 people including 13 Japanese.

Two years ago, huge avalanches at the southern mouth of the tunnel killed at least 64 people, buried alive in cars and buses.

Huge avalanches have repeatedly rocketed down the mountainside here in winter, decimating everything in their path but creating a bucolic clearing for the camp's collection of canvas tents.

Later on, in 1870 when a destructive earthquake struck the broader area of the City of Rijeka, a huge rock avalanche was recorded at the same location on SW slope.

When I asked him what had happened, his response was my worst nightmare -- there had been a huge ice-avalanche in Khumbu icefall and few Sherpa were missing.

They attempted Annapurna but called it off, Beidleman said, after witnessing "huge, biblical-proportion avalanches".