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AUSTRIA: KILLER AVALANCHES: RESCUE OPERATION CONTINUES
English/Nat
Rescuers are mounting a last-ditch effort to find survivors from the two Austrian avalanches.
The death toll now stands at 31 and hopes are fading for seven people still missing.
Evacuation of the survivors from Galtuer and...
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4:3 More bodies of climbers brought to capital after avalanche
More victims of a deadly avalanche on a Nepal peak that killed at least nine mountaineers were brought by rescue helicopter to a hospital in the capital, Katmandu, on Monday.
The avalanche hit at 4 a.m. on Sunday (22.15 GMT Saturday)...
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Rescued Italian climbers brought back after avalanche that killed at least 9
Two Italian survivors of a deadly avalanche on a Nepal peak that killed at least 9 climbers arrived at Katmandu airport on Monday.
The avalanche hit at 4 a.m. on Sunday (22.15 GMT Saturday) while more than two dozen climbers were still...
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Iceland - Avalanche
Snow and ice smothers fishing village, killing 14.
More than 1,000 people fled their homes in Iceland's northwestern
fjords following an avalanche that smashed through the fishing
village of Sudavik on Monday (16/1) killing 14 people,...
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Finishing touches put to Ice Festival sculptures
A face from the freeze.
Here at the entrance to Harbin's Sun Island Theme Park, sculptors are putting the finishing touches to these individual snow and ice creations.
Now in it's 50th year, Harbin - the capital and largest city in...
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Sinabung volcano on high alert after avalanche
A volcano in western Indonesia that has been spewing clouds of searing gas high into the air continued to spew new powerful avalanches of hot ash on Wednesday. Authorities are closely monitoring Mount Sinabung on Sumatra, one of...
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Avalanche danger closes some US ski resorts
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLYSHOTLIST: AP TELEVISION-AP CLIENTS ONLYArapahoe Basin, Colorado - 12 January 20171. Various of skiers and snowboarders at Arapahoe Basin Ski Area2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jesse Bay, Snowboarder, Boulder,...
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Skiers react to deadly avalanche in French Alps
Slopes at the French Alps resort of Tignes were open to the visitors on Tuesday, a day after an avalanche killed four snowboarders .The avalanche - about 100 metres (330 feet) wide and 400 metres (1,300 feet) long - struck the mountain...
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One dead, four injured in Swiss Alps avalanche
Swiss police said on Wednesday that a 34-year-old Frenchman died overnight after being injured in an avalanche at a popular Alps ski resort.
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21 more bodies found after Kashmir avalanche
Search teams aided by Pakistani troops pulled out 21 more bodies from homes destroyed by this week's avalanches in the disputed Kashmir region, raising the overall number of dead due to severe weather to 160 for Pakistan and Afghanistan,...
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COVID-19 Triggers Mountain Safety Concerns
Avalanche experts cite a potential for increased accidents as skiers head to the backcountry as resorts stay closed or limit access.
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Avalanches kill 14 in Indian Kashmir
Gulab Bagh
1. Various of snow covered mountains and forests
2. Various of village houses covered with snow
3. House covered with snow
4. Rescue team trying to evacuate child trapped under snow
5. Wide of people and rescue workers...
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Official on Dutch climbers down from K-2 and Italian still stranded
1. Setup of Shahzad Qaiser, senior official at Pakistan's Ministry of Tourism
2 .SOUNDBITE (English) Shahzad Qaiser, Ministry of Tourism secretary
"We had accurate information in the sense that the two mountaineers who have been...
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Reaction from guide company owned by one of US climbers missing in China
AP Television
Seattle, Washington - 27 December, 2006
1. Dave Jones and Mark Gunlogson in office
2. Buddhist prayer flags hanging in Mountain Madness office
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dave Jones, Mountain Madness Board of Directors:
"The...
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Search for survivors as avalanche buries village, killing 47
1. Wide zoom in to Dasty village covered by avalanche
2. Pan from mountain side to people removing rocks from main road to village
3. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Shah Waliullah Adib, Governor of Badakhshan Province:
"Unfortunately a village called...
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Death toll rises to 165 amid rescue efforts
Khenj district, Panjshir province - 26 February 2015
1. Various of villagers carrying covered bodies for funeral
2. Various of villagers offering prayers for avalanche victims
3. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Haji Abdul Hadi, Khenj resident:
"Among...
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Death toll from avalanches reaches 166, bodies, interior ministry comment
Salang pass, Parwan province
1. Mid of members of rescue team lifting up dead body
2. Mid of dead bodies stacked in back of police pick up truck
3. Various of rescue team workers carrying bodies to helicopter
4. SOUNDBITE: (Dari) Suhrab...
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COLOMBIA: BOGOTA: RUBBISH AVALANCHE LANDS IN TUNJUELITO RIVER
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Colombian authorities have declared a health emergency due to an avalanche of thousands of tonnes of rubbish into one of the capital's rivers.
The avalanche took place over the weekend at the Doå˜a Juana rubbish dump, south...
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Foreign tourists rescued from remote Indian-controlled Kashmir after bad weather
1. Various of ski resort Gulmarg
2. Doctor treating Gay Landen, Israeli tourist
3. Various of doctor treating Franciska Rogne, Norwegian tourist
4. Rogne and Landen coming out from hospital
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Franciska Rogne,...
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Interior minister, police comment on avalanche tragedy
A climber trying to scale Mont Blanc accidentally caused a slab of ice to snap off Thursday high in the French Alps, sparking an avalanche that swept nine European climbers to their deaths, authorities said.
Eleven other climbers were...
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Deputy mayor of Chamonix, UK envoy after nine die in climbing tragedy
Authorities and survivors of a deadly avalanche on France's Mont Blanc say the disaster was nearly impossible to foresee.
Climbers continued to set off up slopes in thick clouds on Friday, the day after an avalanche swept nine to their...
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300 rescued, five die in Afghan avalanche
Near Salang Tunnel (five kilometres from avalanche site on the Kabul side of pass)
1. Various of trucks and cars unable to get through tunnel
2. Pan across mountain range above the Salang pass
3. Various of snow on mountain
4. Rescue...
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FRANCE: SEARCH FOR SUVIVORS FOLLOWING AVALANCHES
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Rescuers continue to search through deep snow and mountains of rubble, with fading hopes of finding survivors of two avalanches that killed at least 10 in the French Alps.
The avalanches destroyed 17 chalets in the Alpine...
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Avalanche survivors treated in hospital
Climbers injured in an avalanche on Mount Everest, which killed at least 12 Nepalese guides, were airlifted for treatment to a hospital in Kathmandu on Friday.
The avalanche swept down a climbing route early in the day, killing the 12...