avalanche

Scientists believe the flood was sparked by a partial glacier collapse on a Nepalese mountain that sent an avalanche of ice and rock into a valley.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

Plunging some 4,000 feet into a valley below, the ice pulverized into water upon impact to create a devastating flood, with the rock debris adding to the destructive power of the ice-and-rock avalanche.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

"We believe a rock-ice avalanche occurred in Nepal, blocking the Lhende river and causing the cascading flood event," Sarthak Shrestha, a remote sensing and geo information analyst with the intergovernmental institute, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

“Naturally there is an avalanche of emotions, not only for them but for their families,” Peacock said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Merry waved his hand towards the steaming lake; and as they looked, they heard a distant rumbling and rattling, as if an avalanche was falling from the mountain-side.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

These deposits form when underwater avalanches of mud, sand, and debris rush down the seafloor and eventually settle into thick sediment layers.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026

The latest deaths took to 18 the number of dead in avalanches in Austria this winter season.

From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026

It is not unusual for avalanches to be in the news in the northern hemisphere at this time of year, the height of the annual ski season.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026

But while forecasting and blasting techniques have improved in recent years, it is not impossible for avalanches to hit pistes that have been declared safe.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026

Dozens of avalanches rumbled down the steep walls above, but our camp was safely beyond their reach.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

James and the Lakers were getting avalanched, a run to undo a 17-point deficit got them to within a point before the Grizzlies smothered them with a barrage of baskets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2023

No wonder Norway avalanched us in the medal count last month.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 2018

It added: "Two of the rescue team men avalanched traversing below No 3 Gully Buttress."

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2016

The awareness of the trend has since avalanched.

From Forbes ● Mar. 9, 2011

The wind howled, the snow avalanched, and the air creaked.

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Unlike ski resorts, which use explosives and other mechanisms to keep inbounds slopes from avalanching during ski days, the backcountry is uncontrolled.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2021

For many artists the avalanching awards and wealth of later life come with an unwelcome diminishing of ideas, but Rauschenberg was still avid for discoveries in his 80s.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 25, 2016

The results came in slowly throughout all the night, and then all at once, with calls avalanching in from key states between 10 and 11 p.m..

From Time ● Nov. 5, 2014

Added weight in the ice-filled catchment basin, caused by new snows or an earthquake avalanching down old ice and snows from the higher slopes forces an impulse through the glacier.

From Time Magazine Archive

I froze, my heart in my throat, but the avalanching ice passed fifty yards to the left, out of sight, without doing any damage.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer