avalanche

“Before, they were rare, but in the last two months there have been an avalanche of them.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

And while training together for the big summit push by climbing a lower peak in Nepal in 2022, Nelson loses her footing in an avalanche the size of a small snow drift.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026

"It saves probers hours and hours of standing shoulder to shoulder and poking in the snow, and also exposing themselves to secondary avalanche hazards," Ward said.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Utah issued an apology even as an avalanche of social media reaction was mainly critical of McAfee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

They were crouched behind an outcropping of rocks, left over from a small avalanche off the hill years before.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

Nelson is lost amid a series of avalanches, and the clock starts ticking.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026

Escalating alerts are used for everything from terrorism and nuclear plant safety to avalanches and volcanic unrest.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

As permafrost degrades, glacial lake outbursts and rock-ice avalanches are expected to increase, producing faster, debris-laden floods that are harder to forecast.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

From the vantage point of our helicopter above the Alps, you can make out scars and dimples from recent avalanches.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026

The materials were loose, so there were constant little avalanches.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

A million tons of sodden dirt avalanched down onto Riverside Drive from Elysian Park.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

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

But many of today’s backcountry users want to make graceful turns through steep slopes covered with untracked powder, which means they generally want to ski slopes that have a relatively high possibility of avalanching.

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

After more than a year of avalanching allegations, the Cleveland Browns quarterback is close to emerging from a mess he created better off than he was before.

From Washington Post

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