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Five climbers are killed and four others are injured by an avalanche in the Zagros Mountains in Lorestan, Iran.
2023-11-25

Two people are killed and three others are injured by an avalanche in Raghistan District, Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan.
2023-02-4

An avalanche at the Squaw Valley Ski Resort in northern California, host site of the 1960 Winter Olympics, kills one person and seriously injures another.
2020-01-17

An avalanche at the Crans-Montana ski resort in Switzerland injures four, one seriously, with fears that up to a dozen skiers may have been hit according to witnesses. 240 rescuers including police and army search the affected piste area. No further victims are immediately found, or missing persons reported.
2019-02-19

At least 14 Indian Army soldiers and four civilians are killed in a series of avalanches near the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.
2017-01-26

The bodies of mountaineer Alex Lowe and photographer David Bridges are found on the Himalayan mountain Shishapangma after being buried in an avalanche in 1999.
2016-05-2

Five snowboarders are killed in a backcountry avalanche on Loveland Pass in the U.S. state of Colorado in the deadliest US avalanche since 1962.
2013-04-20

A train derails in the Swiss Alps after ramming into mounds of snow from an avalanche blocking the tracks with no injuries. [http:--www.thenewage.co.za-75222-1020-53-Swiss_train_derails_due_to_avalanche_rail_operator ("The New Age")]date=August 2019
2012-12-23

At least 17 Indian soldiers are killed in an avalanche in Kashmir.
2010-02-8