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| UpdatedSydney woman Ruth McCance is confirmed to be among eight climbers missing after attempting to climb Nanda Devi, India's second-highest mountain, with reports of a heavy avalanche on their proposed route.
Topics: missing-person, community-and-society, disasters-and-accidents, avalanche, india, australia, united-kingdom, united-states
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An avalanche is captured crashing down a Colorado mountainside, before spilling over the 1-70 interstate highway.
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| UpdatedMotorists on a highway in Colorado find themselves on a collision course with a huge avalanche, but mercifully, it's not nearly as bad as it looks.
Topics: weather, avalanche, disasters-and-accidents, united-states
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Canadian authorities are investigating the death of a 42-year-old woman from New South Wales who died after snowboarding through a permanently closed area above an advanced ski run.
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| UpdatedHeavy snow continues to paralyse much of Europe, cutting off mountain villages and sparking avalanches, with at least 21 weather-related deaths reported in the last 10 days.
Topics: avalanche, snowfall, weather, disasters-and-accidents, germany, switzerland, bulgaria, albania, serbia, bosnia-and-herzegovina, austria
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An avalanche which crashed into a hotel in the Swiss Alps has forced its way into the restaurant and buried over 25 vehicles in a car park. No guests or skiers were reported missing.
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A 12-year-old boy in the French Alps has been rescued uninjured after being buried under an avalanche for 40 minutes.
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| UpdatedA 12-year-old boy is found alive and uninjured after being buried under an avalanche for 40 minutes in the French Alps, an event his rescuers are calling a gift after Christmas.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, avalanche, france
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Jo Morgan says she 'just got really lucky."
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| UpdatedJo Morgan, who began mountaineering at the age of 58, says she "just got really lucky" when an avalanche hit on the slopes of Mount Hicks in the Aoraki Mount Cook National Park.
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| UpdatedThe workers can be heard laughing as the snow is seen rolling down a mountain in the distance. But then they realise they are in the avalanche's path.
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Workers already clearing snow from the mountainside roads in Tignes, France, are forced to flee as an avalanche cascades towards them.
Topics: avalanche, disasters-and-accidents, france
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Several people rush to the aid of a man trapped in snow after an avalanche in Squaw Valley, California. (Credit: Heather Turning via Storyful)
Topics: avalanche, united-states
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The death toll is expected to rise following the magnitude 7.5 earthquake in Papua New Guinea.
Topics: earthquake, disasters-and-accidents, avalanche, landslide, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedA magnitude-7.5 earthquake has damaged the Papua New Guinea town of Tari, blocking highways as aftershocks continue to terrify local residents.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, earthquake, avalanche, landslide, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedEfforts to rescue victims of a deadly eruption and avalanche at a Japanese ski resort are delayed after further volcanic tremors at the site.
Topics: volcanic-eruption, disasters-and-accidents, avalanche, japan
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| UpdatedA Japanese military officer is dead and about a dozen people are injured after a volcano erupted and a subsequent avalanche trapped skiers at a mountain resort in central Japan.
Topics: volcanic-eruption, disasters-and-accidents, avalanche, community-and-society, japan
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Workers require heavy machinery to clear snow walls up to 7m deep from "extraordinary" avalanche in France's south-east as extreme weather causes chaos across the alpine region.
Topics: weather, emergency-incidents, snowfall, avalanche, tourism, france, switzerland
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| UpdatedRescue workers have cut through snow up to 7 metres high to create an access road to the village of Bonneval-sur-Arc in the French Alps.
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Swiss Alpine resorts have airlifted guests by helicopter after heavy snow and a power cut stranded thousands of visitors. With the onset of the wintery weather, avalanche danger in the rugged region of Wallis near the Italian border is now rated as "very great", the highest level, according to the Swiss Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research.
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| UpdatedAn avalanche in central Japan kills seven high school students and a teacher who were among a group on a mountain climbing trip, police say.
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At least six Japanese high school students have been found unconscious after an avalanche hit a ski resort in Nasu, eastern Japan, on Monday.
Topics: avalanche, emergency-incidents, disasters-and-accidents, japan
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| UpdatedFrench authorities say there are no fatalities in an avalanche that struck the French ski resort of Tignes, and the rescue operation is now over.
Topics: avalanche, disasters-and-accidents, winter-sports, freestyle-skiing, alpine-skiing, france
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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