Avalanche

Three people were killed in an avalanche in the Scottish Highlands on Saturday, police said. The three had become trapped while out with six others on Buachaille Etive Mor on Glencoe, near Fort Willliam. Two were rescued by helicopter and transferred to an ambulance before being taken to hospital, but blizzards prevented a second...
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FERNIE, British Columbia (AP) — Search teams recovered the bodies of seven snowmobilers Monday, a day after they were swept away by avalanches in western Canada’s backcountry, police said. An eighth man was missing and believed dead. The bodies were found late Monday afternoon as searchers plowed through avalanche debris near Fernie in British...
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Three Japanese climbers have been killed in an avalanche while scaling a mountain in Tibet, a mountaineering official said Friday. The men were trying on Wednesday to climb Mount Kulagangri, one of the peaks greatly revered in Tibet, when the avalanche hit at 6:50 p.m. (1050 GMT), said Dou Changshen, an official of the...
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CHAMONIX, France (AP) — The bodies of eight climbers swept up in an avalanche near Mont Blanc were located Monday, buried beneath 20 to 50 meters (65-164 feet) of ice, police officials said. Regis Lavergne, commander of the High Mountain Gendarmes based in Chamonix, said a helicopter picked up the signal of special homing...
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