major avalanches
Yungay, peru, 31 may 1970
On 31 May 1970, an earthquake on the coast Peru caused a
part of the north slope of Mt. Huascaran to fall. The avalanche ran down
the hill at a speed of 100 MPH with snow roughly 80 million feet of ice,
mud and rock. It ran nearly 11 kilometres, burying the town in Yun gay and
Ranrahirca in snow up to 300 feet of rock and rubbish. The estimates of
death are over 20,000 people dead from the avalanche.
white Frida, 1916
The Italian campaign was fought between Austrio-Hungary and Italy between 1915 and 1918 in northern Italy. On the day December the 13th, 1916, it would now be known as White Friday, 10,000 soldiers were killed by an avalanches in the Dolomites. One of the avalanches happened in the Austrian camping ground in the barracks under the Gran Poz summit of Monte Marmolada, which was deafened very well from direct fire and out mortar range but more then 500 men were buried alive. Men, as well as their equipment and their horses, were buried under hundreds of thousands of kilograms of snow and ice. they were buried until spring when the bodies were found.