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A deadly avalanche killed at least four people at the French Alps ski resort of Tignes with five people still buried beneath the snow.
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| UpdatedAt least 50 people are dead after a village is buried by an avalanche in eastern Afghanistan, with dozens more killed in the country's north and in neighbouring Pakistan during a weekend of heavy snow.
Topics: weather, snowfall, disasters-and-accidents, avalanche, pakistan, afghanistan, asia
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Drone video released by firefighters shows the extent of the damage with flattened ground covered by debris where the Hotel Rigopiano once stood, and a wide path of snow down the mountain where the avalanche passed.
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| UpdatedRescuers pull the final two dead bodies from the wreckage of a hotel in central Italy that was razed by an avalanche last week, raising the final death toll to 29, the national fire brigade says.
Topics: storm-disaster, disasters-and-accidents, avalanche, earthquake, italy
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| UpdatedItalian firefighters pulled out three children from the avalanche-hit Rigopiano Hotel on Friday evening, who were later taken to Pescara Hospital.
Topics: avalanche, disasters-and-accidents, death, earthquake, community-and-society, italy
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| UpdatedThe family of a chef who first sounded the alarm after a massive avalanche struck an Italian hotel, is reunited after rescuers pulled his daughter alive from the rubble.
Topics: avalanche, disasters-and-accidents, death, earthquake, community-and-society, italy
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Rescue workers find eight survivors and pull two from the rubble of the avalanche-hit Rigopiano Hotel in Italy.
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| UpdatedTen people are found alive beneath the rubble of a luxury mountain hotel in central Italy which was crushed by a massive avalanche two days earlier.
Topics: avalanche, disasters-and-accidents, death, earthquake, italy
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| UpdatedA huge avalanche ploughed into a luxury mountain hotel in central Italy after a series of strong earthquakes rattled the area, and up to 30 people might be buried under the snow, officials say.
Topics: avalanche, earthquake, italy
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| UpdatedFootage shows Tom Oye caught in an avalanche while skiing in Canada.
Topics: avalanche, disasters-and-accidents, canada
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| UpdatedThe 21-year-old dies during a film shoot in Switzerland after a slab of snow breaks away and sweeps her down a narrow, rocky slope.
Topics: avalanche, winter-sports, switzerland
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An avalanche kills six skiers in the area of Monte Nevoso of the Italian Alps, making it one of the deadliest to hit the area in many years, rescuers say.
Topics: avalanche, disasters-and-accidents, italy, austria
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Five snowmobilers have been killed after being buried in an avalanche in Canada's British Columbia province, officials say.
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| UpdatedFive soldiers on a training exercise with the French Foreign Legion in the Alps are killed by an avalanche, the second mountain tragedy in France in less than a week.
Topics: avalanche, disasters-and-accidents, defence-forces, death, france
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Nepal considers banning severely disabled climbers and those deemed too old from Everest and other mountains in an attempt to improve safety.
Topics: disabilities, sport, avalanche, earthquake, nepal
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| UpdatedSeven people are killed when an avalanche sweeps them away in the French Alps, the deadliest snowslide to hit the popular mountain range this year.
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| UpdatedAn additional $10 million in funding will be provided by Australia to support Nepal as it recovers from last month's devastating magnitude-7.8 earthquake, as the search for bodies in the village of Langtang is suspended due to bad weather.
Topics: earthquake, disasters-and-accidents, avalanche, nepal, asia
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| UpdatedA Perth woman has described the horrific scenes at the Mount Everest base camp in Nepal when the magnitude 7.9 earthquake hit on April 25, triggering a deadly avalanche.
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| UpdatedThere are fears an Australian trekker may be among around 100 people killed by a giant avalanche which destroyed the Nepalese trekking village of Langtang during last month's earthquake.
Topics: earthquake, disasters-and-accidents, avalanche, nepal, asia, european-union
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Fears of further avalanches in the wake of last month's devastating earthquake in Nepal lead tour groups to cancel this year's climbing season at Mount Everest, but the government says it will not close the mountain to individual climbers.
Topics: earthquake, disasters-and-accidents, avalanche, government-and-politics, emergency-incidents, travel-and-tourism, nepal, asia
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| UpdatedForeign trekkers are among 50 bodies retrieved from an avalanche-hit area of Nepal, as the death toll from last week's earthquake climbs to more than 7,000.
Topics: earthquake, disasters-and-accidents, avalanche, community-and-society, nepal, asia
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| UpdatedA body bag containing the body of a climber is carried from a helicopter in the Himalayan tourist town of Lukla April 29, 2015. As rescuers lose hope of finding more survivors in Nepal's earthquake disaster zone, a separate drama has unfolded high above them on Mount Everest where the hopes of a few rich climbers and some of their sherpas have also vanished. Picture taken April 29, 2015.
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| UpdatedAll of the climbers who had been stranded at camps on Mount Everest by a huge earthquake in Nepal have been airlifted to safety, mountaineers say.
Topics: earthquake, disasters-and-accidents, avalanche, nepal, asia
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| UpdatedForeign Minister Julie Bishop says the Government holds "grave fears" for an Australian citizen who was known to be at the Mount Everest base camp during the earthquake.
Topics: avalanche, earthquake, disasters-and-accidents, nepal, australia
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| UpdatedSurvivors of Saturday's huge avalanche on Mount Everest recount the horrifying moments a wall of snow and ice bore down on their camp.
Topics: avalanche, disasters-and-accidents, death, community-and-society, nepal