avalanche disaster

On 24 January 2009, three mountain climbers were killed and one was seriously injured, in an avalanche disaster.

We received international help when we suffered our major avalanche disaster in Galtür.

It is Canada's worst ever avalanche disaster.

Rescuers evacuated 237 people trapped in the Himalayas after one of Nepal's worst avalanche disasters near Mount Everest, officials said today.

Yesterday Mrs Stenzel talked about the avalanche disaster in the Tyrol, and I would like to thank her for her words, which we wholeheartedly endorse.

It is believed to be the biggest avalanche disaster to hit a trekking or mountaineering expedition in Nepal, which attracts about 65,000 foreign hikers and climbers every year.

One example of successful cross-border cooperation is the cooperation between Styria and Bavaria in connection with avalanche disasters, to provide an immediate response aimed at disaster prevention.

After the avalanche disaster, which supposedly claimed Yomogi, Mayuzumi, and Fuyukawa's lives according to the newspaper and magazine, is avoided, everybody is safe and sound.

The worst avalanche disaster in modern Norwegian history took place in Vassdalen near Bjerkvik in March 1986 when 16 Norwegian soldiers on exercise were killed.

After the Wellington avalanche disaster of 1910 the Great Northern changed the town's name from Wellington, which had become associated with the disaster, to Tye, after the river.

FOUR MONTHS AFTER the avalanche disaster, Abulurd Harkonnen and his wife embarked on a well-publicized visit to the recovering mountain city.

In the Provincial Chamber, at precisely ten o'clock, Harrison tapped the top of the rostrum gently with his gavel, and said, 'We are now prepared to resume the inquiry into the avalanche disaster at Hukahoronui.

Mr President, let me give you warm thanks on behalf of my delegation and also of the delegation of Austrian Social Democrats for your words of sympathy on the avalanche disaster in Tyrol.

As you said, this was the worst avalanche disaster in Austria since the second world war, although of course other Alpine regions have also been hit, in Italy and France and in a non-Member State, Switzerland.

Scientific studies using radar, following the 1999 Galtür avalanche disaster, confirmed the hypothesis that a saltation layer forms between the surface and the airborne components of an avalanche, which can also separate from the bulk of the avalanche.

The group were hiking along the Balu Pass Trail in the Connaught Creek Valley in British Columbia's Glacier National Park, some 5 km west of the Rogers Pass summit, scene of the 1910 avalanche disaster.