List of avalanche accidents

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This list of avalanche accidents includes disasters caused by avalanches . Both disasters caused directly by avalanches and indirect, but temporally and spatially closely related disasters are recorded.

The criterion for admission is a minimum of 10 deaths per event or per related event or any other major significance or specialty, especially from the perspective of the DA-CH countries.

list

year event Mountain system Affected areas and localities Fatalities Injured
1720 Avalanche winter in Switzerland Alps Switzerland approx. 200 unknown
February 24, 1844 Destruction of the royal court Black Forest Neukirch in the Black Forest 17th unknown
1902 Avalanche disaster near Karmadon in 1902 Caucasus Karmadon (Russia) 32
March 1, 1910 Wellington Railway Accident Cascade Mountains Wellington ( WA , USA ) 96 unknown
March 4, 1910 Railway accident from Rogers Pass Columbia Mountains Rogers Pass ( BC , Canada ) 62 unknown
1915-1918 Alpine War Austria vs. Italy; with the avalanche disaster of December 13, 1916 (on this day "up to 5,000 deaths"), many avalanches were triggered by artillery fire Alps Dolomites over 10,000 (estimated 40,000-80,000)
January 9, 1918 Mitsumata, now part of Yuzawa , Niigata Prefecture ( Japan ) at least 158
January 20, 1918 Avalanche accident in the Otori Mine / Furukawa Mining Company Asahi (now Tsuruoka ), Yamagata Prefecture (Japan) 180 (154 officially confirmed)
December 5, 1935 Avalanche accident at Kukiswumtschorr Chibines Kirovsk ( Russia ) 88 42
1951 Avalanche winter 1951 , including Vals GR (Switzerland), January 20, 1951: 19 dead, further 12 cows and goats killed Alps Central Alps , Eastern Alps , Southern Alps 265
February 11, 1952 Several huts in the hamlet of Melköde are buried in an avalanche Alps Melköde, Kleinwalsertal (Vorarlberg), Austria 20th 30th
December 1952 A large team of Soviet climbers was affected. Mount Everest 40
January 1954 Avalanche catastrophe of 1954 in Vorarlberg : Buried by avalanches in valleys of Vorarlberg Alps Vorarlberg (Austria) 125 143
January 10, 1962 Scree and ice avalanche from the Nevado Huascarán To the near Yungay (Peru) 2000-4000
May 15, 1965 Avalanche on the Zugspitzplatt Alps Zugspitze (Germany) 10 21st
February 10, 1970 Avalanche disaster in Val d'Isère Alps Val-d'Isère (France) 39 37
February 24, 1970 Avalanche disaster in Reckingen in the Valais (in Goms VS lt.) Alps Reckingen in Valais (Switzerland) 30th
April 16, 1970 Avalanche disaster from the Plateau d'Assy, including 56 dead children Alps Plateau at Passy , France 71
April 14, 1975 Numerous avalanches go down in the Alps on White Sunday. Among the victims are tourists trapped in their cars who ignored local avalanche warnings. Alps u. a. Lukmanier Pass (Switzerland), Brenner Pass (Austria) at least 40
January 1982 Berchtesgaden pupils skiing on a slope in the Tennengebirge with 3 companions, including the mountain guide; however, 4 students survive Alps Salzburg (Austria) 13
February 1982 Thaw triggers in the French. Alpen caused several avalanches that kill eleven skiers and seriously injure six others. Alps (France) 11 6th
March 1982 kills several avalanches in the French Alps 16 Alps (France) 16
March 1982 In a village on the slopes of Mount Ararat, 15 are buried and killed by an avalanche. Mount Ararat (Turkey) (East) 15th
March 2, 1985 Several vehicles were hit by an avalanche on the road between Täsch and Zermatt . Alps Valais 11
July 13, 1990 A small earthquake caused an ice block to fall at night, which triggered an ice snow avalanche on the frying pan camp (used since 1930) at an altitude of 5300 m. 140-person expedition, the majority escaped, 27 dead are Soviet mountaineers, mostly led by Peak Lenin Pamir Mountains ( Soviet Union / (today :) Kyrgyzstan) 43
February 1992 Several avalanches in the Turkish-Iranian border region kill 240. Whole villages are buried. Mount Ararat (Turkey / Iran) 240
January 1993 Avalanche in the northeast of Üzengili, victims in houses Pontic Mountains Üzengili, Bayburt Province , (Turkey) 56 21st
January 1993 North Ossetia (South) (Russia) more than 50
January 16, 1995 Houses in the fishing village buried by avalanche, 8 children among the dead. in Sudavik (West) ( Iceland ) 14th
October 1995 in Flateyri (coast, west) ( Iceland ) 20th
November 1995 Mountain village Panda in Nepal, 85 people are rescued by helicopter Panda ( Nepal ) at least 48
April 1996 An avalanche buried a road in the Chinese province of Sichuan in eastern Tibet. ( Tibet ) (East) 56
March 1997 a road is spilled ( Afghanistan ) (North) at least 100
January 1998 Avalanche hit the sports hall of the Inuit community Kangiqsualujjuaq , where 400–500 people celebrate the New Year. Quebec , Canada 9 25th
January 23, 1998 in the village of Les Orres (center-est) 9 students and 2 of their companions buried during a snowshoe hike Alps Mont Blanc 11
1999 Avalanche winter 1999 (see also: Avalanche catastrophe in Galtür (February, 31 dead, Tyrol West), avalanche accident in Evolène (9 February, chalets in Montroc near the village of Tour in the Chamonix Valley: 12 dead, Central Alps East, F) 100,000 t of snow with up to 100 km / h, the mayor was indicted for not having the place evacuated before, was acquitted. Alps Evolene , Galtür 60
March 28, 2000 Kitzsteinhorn , most of them are young skiing instructors Alps Salzburg (SO) (Austria) 12
September 20, 2002 Avalanche disaster in the Karmadon Gorge , among the dead: film director Sergei Bodrov and 24 from his film team. Caucasus Nijni Karmadon North Ossetia (South), (Russia) at least 127
January 2009 Alpinists on the mountain Caucasus Zigana Massif (Northeast), (Turkey) at least 127
January 3, 2010 Avalanche in Diemtigtal Alps Diemtigtal (Switzerland) 8th
April 2010 Kamchatka Peninsula, 5 German tourists among the dead Kamchatka (Russia) (East) 10
July 12, 2012 Mountaineers on the north slope of Mont Maudit / Montblanc Alps Mont Blanc (France) 9
23rd September 2012 Avalanches on Manaslu Himalayas Manaslu 11
April 2014 Icefall on Mount Everest Himalayas Mount Everest 16
October 16, 2014 Avalanche below Thorong La mountain pass and in the area Himalayas Annapurna 21st
18th January 2017 Avalanche accident in Farindola : snowed-in hotel (ex mountain hut) on the slope of Gran Sasso shortly after the earthquake buried by avalanche and postponed, rescue operation that lasted for days. Abruzzo Farindola (Italy) 29
before February 5, 2017 Avalanches and storms in 3 days, 47 of them dead in the village of Afsaye, Barg-e Matal district due to several avalanches (Pakistan, Afghanistan) 87 16
January 14, 2020 77 people died in several avalanches after heavy precipitation. Further fatalities from snow and landslide-related causes. Himalayas Nilam Valley, Pakistan 77 63
4th / 5th February 2020 Avalanche accident near Bahçesaray : In an avalanche accident on February 4, two vehicles were buried, five people were killed. The next day, another avalanche killed at least 33 people who wanted to rescue the victims from the previous day. Southeastern Taurus Van , Turkey 41 84

See also

Individual evidence

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  5. ↑ History Channel - December 13, 1916: Soldiers perish in avalanche as World War I rages - Some 10,000 men, from both sides, lost their lives in avalanches in December 1916.
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  9. ↑ The white grave in Kleinwalsertal: contemporary witness remembers the biggest avalanche accident in our region . ( allgaeu.life [accessed January 25, 2018]).
  10. ↑ Avalanche Kills 40 Climbers in Soviet Central Asia nytimes.com, July 18, 1990, accessed February 6, 2017. - Without an official Soviet report on the victims. According to a report by Polish climbers.
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  12. ^ Weißer Sonntag 1975 spiegel.de, April 14, 1975, accessed December 31, 2018.
  13. ^ ZDF: today, March 2, 1985
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  15. ↑ Leonid Troshchinenko
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  22. ↑ Numerous tourists killed in Nepal ( memento from February 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) bergrettung.at, archive: on Kathmandu, October 16, 2014, accessed February 6, 2017.
  23. ↑ Over 80 killed in avalanches in Pakistan and Afghanistan In: orf.at . February 5, 2017, accessed January 17, 2020.
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