Sentence examples for massive avalanches from inspiring English sources

The trigger for these massive avalanches, which occurred on relatively gentle slopes, has left scientists baffled.

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.

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.

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.

Reports suggest a massive avalanche low on the 29,000ft (8,848m) mountain caught a work party of local sherpas as they prepared the classic South Col route – followed by the peak's first ascensionists in 1953 – for fee-paying western climbers.

KABUL, Afghanistan — The massive avalanche that crushed a village in the far reaches of northern Afghanistan this week, killing at least 50 people, was part of a pattern of extreme temperatures and heavier snowfall that has spread suffering and underscored the government's continued failings despite a decade of outside assistance and billions of dollars in aid.