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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

The growing garbage fire has warped a landfill hillside, which could potentially trigger and avalanche of garbage and leachate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

In 2015 she released “Sherpa,” a documentary about the Sherpa lifestyle and the aftermath of an avalanche that killed 16 people from the community.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

The rats who had been chasing him, and it must have been about all of them, were falling after him in an avalanche of stone.

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins

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

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026

After avalanches, a common winter hazard in the area, they were called upon to search for trapped hikers or skiers underneath heavy mounds of snow.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 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

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

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

And after a lifetime of scholarship he was so laden with erudition that his ideas came avalanching down faster than he could organize them.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker