avalanche

Other countries still rely on canines, often called "avalanche dogs", for mountain search and rescue, including Italy, external.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

The latest film features children of avid climbers who lost their parents to the mountains at young ages, including one who saw his father get killed in an avalanche.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 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

An avalanche of financial research over the past several years has shown the value of guaranteed income in retirement plans.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

It worked—a minor avalanche of rocks rained onto the street below.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

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

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026

Temperatures in the Himalayan region are rising faster than the global average, accelerating glacier retreat and permafrost thaw and contributing to growing risks of landslides, rockfalls, avalanches and glacial lake outburst floods.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

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 man was among six people rescued in four separate incidents on and around Ben Nevis - two of which were during avalanches.

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026

It was not the most ideal terrain, plagued as it was by mudslides, floods, and avalanches.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

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

He was happy to learn this, he said, for the Brooks Range was treacherous in winter; whole mountainsides avalanched, and storms brewed up in mere minutes.

From "Julie of the Wolves" 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