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Avalanche Incident Les Orres, France - January 23, 1998 [Official Reports] [Media Reports] [Other Sources] Official Reports Media Reports French police say hikers triggered fatal avalanche Everyone on outing accounted for CNN, AP, Reuters - January 24, 1998 GAP, France (CNN) The weight of students show-shoeing through the Alps despite avalanche warnings caused the snowslide Friday that killed nine students and two adult guides, police said Saturday during their probe into the worst disaster of its kind to hit the French Alps since 1970. Mountain police Lt. Laurent Jaunatre said it was "now certain" that it was "the group itself which set off the slide (of snow) on its path." "It's clear they had no business there," Jaunatre said, correcting previous reports suggesting that skiers above the group might have touched off the avalanche. Police were trying to determine if any laws had been violated. Grieving parents of the students who died or were injured arrived Saturday in the French Alps to recover their children and find out how the tragedy happened. The group of 34 students from a private school near Paris and their guides had been hiking on snowshoes off marked trails at 2,300 meters (7,590 feet) near the southeastern ski resort of Les Orres when the avalanche was set off.

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Colorado Avalanche Disasters: An Untold Story of the Old West San Juan Mountains: Avalanche Peaks In Colorado's silvery San Juans snow fell deeper and longer than in any other mountain region. Avalanches blocked roads and railroads requiring tunneling or expensive snow sheds. Here a stagecoach emerges from an avalanche tunnel on Red Mountain Pass road - the Million Dollar Highway. The tunnel lasted until spring when warming temperatures softened the snow enough to be removed. Homestake: The First Mining Disaster An avalanche caused Colorado's first serious mining disaster. On Homestake mountain near Leadville, the world's largest silver mining region of the time, ten perished in their cabin in February 1885. The avalanche buried the cabin to a depth of over thirty feet. Rescuers finally reached the cabin's roof after a full day of digging. When they entered they saw a sight of men in life like poses - playing cards, writing letters and asleep in bunks. As the slide passed overhead life preserving air was sucked out and the men died of asphyxiation in the vacuum it created. Woodstock and Silverplume John Jenkin's CSM Home Page

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Gokyo Snowstorm November 1995 - News Reports: Subject : Nepal rescuers find miraculous survivor, toll 42 Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 8:50:07 PST KATHMANDU, Nepal (Reuter) - A teenage boy given up for dead in an avalanche survived a 24-hour ordeal and was pulled from deep snow Sunday, safe except for frostbite, Nepali rescue officials said. The rescue of 17-year-old Deepak Nepali against all the odds made the death toll in weekend avalanches in the Himalayan kingdom 42, down from an earlier announced 43. A total of 17 foreigners are known to have died 13 Japanese trekkers killed by Saturday's avalanche and an Irish woman, two Canadians and a German buried in a landslide. Rescuers Sunday helped some 115 foreign trekkers from a snow-ravaged valley near Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain. ``Some of the rescued were in shoulder-deep snow,'' said Bikash J.B. Rana, a Nepal Airways helicopter pilot who took part. ``Most are suffering from snow blindness, frostbite and hunger,'' Rana said. ``Many of them would have died had rescuers not reached them today.'' The avalanche in which the 13 Japanese died Saturday was also believed to have killed 13 Nepalis. But Deepak managed to survive by perching between two rocks in four-foot deep snow, rescue officials said.

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TITLE: Avalanche emergencies. New perspectives on the pathophysiology and management of persons buried in an avalanche AUTHOR(S): Brugger H, Falk M, AdlerKastner L REFERENCE: WIENER KLINISCHE WOCHENSCHRIFT 109: (5) 145-159 MAR 14 1997; ISSN: 0043-5325 MAJOR KEYWORDS: ACCIDENTAL PROFOUND HYPOTHERMIA, SURVIVAL CHANCES, ARREST MINOR KEYWORDS: avalanches, asphyxia, air pocket, hypothermia, triage ABSTRACT: DATABASE SOURCE: Current Contents

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20. Geological And Logging Data Of The Deep Observation Wells avalanche disasters in Toyama Prefecture. (1880/811998/99). By. KaoruIZUMI*, Yutaka YAMADA**, Takashi IKARASHI** and Yoshio OHZEKI***. http://www.bosai.go.jp/ad/Jpn/technical_note/abstract/n202.htm

Avalanche Disasters in Toyama Prefecture By Kaoru IZUMI*, Yutaka YAMADA , Takashi IKARASHI and Yoshio OHZEKI *The Research Institute for Hazards in Snowy Areas, Niigata University, Japan Nagaoka Institute of Snow and Ice Studies, Japan ***A Former senior researcher in Tohkamachi Experiment Station, Forestry and Forest products Research Institute, Japan Abstract Key words: Avalanche disaster, Toyama Prefecture, Statistics –hÐ‰ÈŠw‹ZpŒ¤‹†ŠŒ¤‹†Ž‘—¿ˆê——‚Ö–ß‚é

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