Article: NEW AVALANCHES ADD TO DEADLY EUROPE TOLL.(News)

Article: New avalanches force suspension of rescue for 14 ...
Xinhua News Agency;  March 16, 2008 ;     520 words ...New avalanches force suspension of rescue for 14 missing in NW China URUMQI, March 16 (Xinhua) -- New snowslides have cut off the only path ...

Article: TWO NEW AVALANCHES COMPLICATE U.S. 12 REOPENING
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 12, 2008 ;     628 words ... ... release additional snow if necessary, said Doral Hoff, ITD's District 2 Maintenance Engineer. The discovery of two new avalanches is an unexpected setback to ITD's efforts to clear the highway and restore travel between Lewiston and Missoula, Mont ...

Article: Four die in new avalanches.(News)
The Birmingham Post (England);  February 24, 2000 ;     253 words ...Four people were killed and one was still missing yesterday when they were caught in an avalanche in the Hautes-Alpes region of southeastern France. One other skier was seriously injured and another was unhurt when the avalanche hit a group of seven skiers above the ski station of Prapic. One skier

Article: Britons warned of new avalanches
Evening Standard - London;  February 26, 1999 ;     598 words ...BRITISH skiers heading for the Alps this weekend are being warned to expect more avalanches after massive snow slides in two Austrian resorts killed 61 people. Warm daytime temperatures have destabilised the huge amounts of snow deposited on the slopes, experts said today. A spokesman for the Ski

Article: Two killed in new avalanches
Evening Standard - London;  February 22, 1999 ;     270 words ...TWO more people have died and 12 are missing after two huge avalanches in the Alps, writes Allan Ramsay. The two slides thundered into Switzerland's Val D'Herens valley during the night, crushing six chalets. In France, three climbers are trapped at 12,000 feet near Val d'Isere. Three Britons were

Article: SEARCH FOR AVALANCHE SURVIVORS CONTINUES AT LEAST 10 DEAD AND 20 ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  February 11, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... its foundations and ``exploded,'' he said. Rescue workers, fearing new avalanches, suspended the search for survivors at nightfall. Warnings of new avalanches yesterday closed ski slopes throughout the valley, deserted by thousands ...

Article: Helicopters evacuate 500 trapped skiers.(News)
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  February 5, 2005 ;     406 words ... ... other roads that had been cut off to determine which ones could be cleared without risking the workers being trapped in new avalanches. Experts set the avalanche risk for the province of Upper Austria and the northern part of the Styria province, which ...