avalanche

The rock-ice avalanche crashed thousands of feet into the valley below, where it was pulverized into a muddy debris-laden flood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

"We believe a rock-ice avalanche occurred in Nepal, blocking the Lhende river and causing the cascading flood event," he told AFP.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

Nepal's foreign minister says preliminary reports show it may have been caused by an earthquake triggering an avalanche, which lead to flash floods.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Anything that blocks them, be it an avalanche or landslide, will lead to a "big accumulation of water, then it creates these incredibly fast floods."

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

At 8:32 A.M. on a Sunday morning, May 18, the north side of the volcano collapsed, sending an enormous avalanche of dirt and rock rushing down the mountain slope at 150 miles an hour.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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

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 avalanche risk remains high in parts of Tyrol - meaning avalanches can be expected - where two fatal avalanches occurred on Friday in off-piste areas.

From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026

As I crouched inside my bivouac sack under the lip of the bergschrund, spindrift avalanches hissed down from the wall above and washed over me like surf, slowly burying my ledge.

From "Into the Wild" 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

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