Sentence examples for massive avalanche from inspiring English sources
Two weeks ago, a dozen experienced backcountry skiers were caught in a massive avalanche in the Cascades, in Washington.
In 2014 a massive avalanche near Everest base camp killed 16 Nepali guides, after which expeditions were called off.
Still they continued to look above the slide until they were forcibly evacuated, narrowly missing another massive avalanche caused by Tuesday's 7.3 magnitude quake.
The massive avalanche appears to have been triggered by a "wind slab" – a mass of compacted snow – up to six metres thick.
The earlier quake triggered a massive avalanche that killed 18 climbers and support staff waiting to ascend the world's tallest peak.
It took a full day for news of a massive avalanche in the snowbound reaches of Badakhshan Province, in the shadow of the Hindu Kush mountains, to reach Faizabad, the provincial capital.
The trigger for these massive avalanches, which occurred on relatively gentle slopes, has left scientists baffled.
Tirol avalanches of 1916, series of massive avalanches in December 1916 that killed as many as 10,000 troops in the mountainous Tirol region, an area now occupying the northern part of Italy and the western part of Austria.
Other countries, including Israel, France, Uruguay and Spain, have taken their own water purification machines to Vargas state, where massive avalanches of mud and water on Dec. 15 came crashing down the mountain that separates Caracas from the Caribbean Sea.
A massive debris avalanche triggered by an earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale caused an eruption that reduced the elevation of the mountain's summit from 9677 feet to 8365 feet, replacing it with a 1 mi wide horseshoe-shaped crater.
A massive deep slab avalanche had rushed down the Headwall slope toward the resort's midmountain restaurant, partially pinning four patrollers on the outside patio, trapping a fifth and his search dog inside a nearby ski patrol room and knocking two more patrollers down the mountain's face.
