Avalanche News - 2018

Avalanche News Stories - 2018

December 29, 2018 - New Infrared Binoculars Help Colorado Attack Avalanches Ahead Of Time

The Colorado Department of Transportation is taking a new approach in avalanche mitigation work to increase safety along Colorado highways. Infrared technology is being used to not only make avalanche mitigation work more efficiently, but safer. More ...

December 26, 2018 - Boy, 12, survives avalanche that buried him for 40 minutes

A 12-year-old boy in the French Alps was found alive and uninjured after being buried under an avalanche for 40 minutes, an event his rescuers are calling a true “miracle.” More ...

December 18, 2018 - Avalanche Buries school kids as French Alps ski run torn apart

AN AVALANCHE buried skiers, including school children, when they were on the slopes in the French Alps in seconds. More ...

December 10, 2018 - Positions in Computational Snow and Avalanche Mechanics

Prof. J. Gaume at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland) invites applications for 2 PhD and 1 PostDoc positions in the field of Computational Mechanics for Snow and Avalanche Modeling. More ...

November 15, 2018 - Villages Prone to Avalanches

Due to the fear of avalanche, people are forced to take temporary shelters in Kullu-Manali or other places during winters and hiring a dwelling is a costly affair. In 2015, a massive avalanche had done considerable damage to the houses in the area. As many as 12 houses and two primary schools were damaged badly. More ...

November 12, 2018 - 'Lucky escapes' in avalanches in Scotland's mountains

The Scottish Avalanche Information Service (SAIS) said 20 people in total were involved in human-triggered snow slides during its 2017/18 season. Half of these people were carried down mountainsides by snow. There were no fatalities due to avalanche activity recorded during the season, SAIS said, but some people had "very lucky escapes" after being caught in avalanches in Scotland's mountains. More ...

October 31, 2018 - 2015 Deaths of 2 U.S. ski team members in avalanche spurs changes

On the ski lift buildings at the resort in Soelden, Austria, there are now signs that read: "Attention! High Alpine terrain. Leave marked runs at your own risk." Written in English, the warning notices also feature the pictures of Bryce Astle and Ronnie Berlack, two U.S. ski team members who were killed in an avalanche near the area on Jan. 5, 2015. More ...

September 24, 2018 - 19 Elk Perish in Oregon Avalanche

Melting snow last month unveiled the carcasses of 19 elk likely killed by an avalanche a year or two ago on Broken Top mountain peak east of Bend, Oregon. Wildlife biologists believe the avalanche might have occurred in the winter of 2016-17 after heavy snowfall. More ...

September 8, 2018 - Avalanche Path Serves as a Fire Break

Crews battling a wildfire near the U.S. border in Alberta are hoping an avalanche path will prevent the flames from spreading further into a national park that was badly burned last year. A spokesman for Parks Canada says the flames have reached a stretch of mountainside that has been swept mostly bare of trees by winter avalanches. More ...

September 6, 2018 - Radar helps to calculate avalanche risks

Researchers now understand better what happens inside a massive avalanche as it slides down a mountain. Slab avalanches, dry snow avalanches and wet snow avalanches can all be classified easily once they’ve come down the mountain. But up to now, researchers have been utterly puzzled by what actually happens during the phenomenon itself. More ...

 

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