Tag: avalanches
Two killed in another avalanche
Two Norwegian men were killed in an avalanche in Nordland County Tuesday afternoon. They were each operating excavators in an effort to open a...
Another deadly avalanche in Norway
A 16-year-old boy out snow-mobiling in a valley in southwestern Norway on Sunday afternoon got caught in an avalanche at Åseral in Vest-Agder. He...
Search postponed for last avalanche victim
Renewed danger of avalanches has prompted search crews in Northern Norway to postpone efforts to find the body of the fourth victim of a...
Two more avalanche victims found
Police in Northern Norway confirmed they had found the bodies of two more of the four skiers who were killed by an avalanche in...
Search crews find one of four avalanche victims
Search crews that finally were able to dig through snowdrifts in efforts to find the bodies of four missing skiers recovered one of them...
Residents evacuated as storm hits Svalbard
More than 100 residents of Longyearbyen, the main settlement on Svalbard, were evacuated after a severe winter storm slammed into the Arctic island group...
Missing skiers presumed dead
The season for so-called "top tours" on skis in Norway is off to "a tragic start" this year, enthusiasts conceded, after four tourists were...
Avalanche warnings north and west
More warnings of high avalanche danger were posted late this week from Møre in the southwest to Troms in the north. Emergency crews in...
Four missing after avalanches
Three men from Finland and a woman from Sweden were missing Wednesday, after they'd set off on a trek to the summit of Blåbærtind...
Avalanche danger raised to ‘extreme’
For the first time ever, state authorities raised the danger for avalanches to "extreme" in wide areas of Nordland County. Warnings were up all...
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