In the US alone, the 2012 to 2013 ski season saw 24 recorded fatalities from avalanches.
Later, as night fell, I could hear the faint sound of avalanches on the distant mountains.
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It said walkers, climbers and skiers should remain vigilante to the risk of avalanches.
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Sportscotland Avalanche Information Service (SAIS), which provides the reports, has recorded 129 avalanches this season.
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Nationwide, 16 others have died in avalanches this season, according to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center.
It was in an area where avalanches are known to occur, but not of this magnitude.
There has been a number of serious incidents as a result of avalanches in Scotland this year.
There have been a number of serious incidents as a result of avalanches in Scotland this year.
Their statement also comes in the wake of several avalanches that have claimed the lives of climbers.
In the Alps up to 50 centimetres (20 inches) of new snowfall has increased the risk of avalanches.
The region's avalanche agency reported there was a considerable to great chance of avalanches in Lech last week.
"There have been several natural avalanches this morning, and there will almost definitely be more today, " she says.
Until then, avalanches rarely claimed more than a handful of lives each season in records going back to 1950.
At least 35 were natural deaths attributed to such things as starvation, drowning, avalanches, and fights with other animals.
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That sort of attention to detail also carries over to the realistic physics used to model the creation of avalanches.
Interestingly, the hikes take place at night to avoid possible avalanches caused by the sun melting the snow on the glaciers.
The area has suffered avalanches before, but Cousins is keen to point out that it is not a black spot.
Four people have been confirmed dead and one woman is reported missing after two avalanches in the Austrian province of Tyrol.
U.S. Forest Service officials say the White Mountains contain many winter hazards, including avalanches, icefall, weather, unpredictable snow conditions and crevasses.
He talks lyrically of hill farmers on high mountain pastures, whose grazing herds prevent avalanches and provide jobs in remote villages.
In agreement with the model, Gumbsch said, the testing is suggesting that releasing slab avalanches is much easier than previously thought.
In other MRO images people have spontaneously found avalanches happening, for example.
An alternative would be to make natural-disaster insurance (covering floods, earthquakes, avalanches and so on) obligatory, with premiums more closely reflecting the risk.
Meanwhile, rescue teams in Snowdonia have warned about the dangers of avalanches after 500 tonnes of snow slid down a mountainside near Aber Falls.
Mountain people are also particularly vulnerable to other natural hazards, such as volcanic eruptions, avalanches, floods and earthquakes, even without the risk from GLOFs.
The 7, 522ft high Bold Peak, for example, is known for avalanches.
Severe weather also continues to take its toll in the Alps , where a number of skiers have been killed in avalanches since the weekend.
The moon struggled in its straitjacket: a tremor like that of an earthquake caused avalanches of empty cans to slide down from the mountain of refuse.
Avalanches during the spring aren't rare, he said, noting that there's a secondary peak of landslides during this time because the Northwest still sees heavy storms, which can include snow.
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