Sentence examples for slide of snow from inspiring English sources

According to Buckingham Palace, the avalanche started above them and all of the royal party were able to take avoiding action except the two victims, who were caught in the sudden slide of snow which had been building up on the mountain yesterday during a fresh and heavy fall.

At Montana State University in Bozeman, Dr. Kathy Hansen, a professor of geography, is beginning a two-year project under a $160,000 grant issued last month by the National Science Foundation to analyze weak underlying layers of snow that give way, triggering the slide of snow above them.

Those who died in the accident were locals from villages around Everest, mainly specialists who were preparing a route through the upper reaches of the Khumbu icefall at an altitude of around 5,900m (19,500ft) when hit by a massive slide of snow.

Yes, much of the sport's old-time charm has vanished, but the experience of sliding on snow -- regardless of other resort trappings -- just keeps getting better.

Here are a few more new ideas that ski areas have developed to inspire a love of sliding on snow.

In A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens the weather is so cold and foggy that the water freezes in the pipes and the young boys slide down roads of snow and frozen ice.

The slide of ice and snow occurred about 20 miles northeast of the town of Revelstoke near the Durand Glacier where the skiers were dropped by helicopters, Bob Pearce, a spokesman for the British Columbia Ambulance Service, told reporters.

In a Twitter post, Angle said that he was in an ice storm and that his car had slid into three feet of snow.

A powdery section of snow slid across the mid-Atlantic region and out toward sea on Saturday, making the season's first significant storm a less ferocious affair than a freakish Halloween weekend northeaster, or the blizzard of 2010.

"The images include," according to the Postal Service, "Peter forming a snowball, Peter sliding down a mountain of snow, Peter making a snow angel, and Peter leaving footprints in the snow".

Shingle-colored tin disposes of snow by sliding it off.