List of avalanche accidents
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.
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year | event | Mountain system | Affected areas and localities | Fatalities | Injured |
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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
- ↑ Greenpeace Report from November 2000, page 4 ( Memento from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF, 2.059 kB)
- ↑ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Kolka/
- ^ Lee Davis (2008). " Natural Disasters ". Infobase Publishing. p.7. ISBN 0-8160-7000-8
- ^ Eduard Rabofsky et al., Lawinen Handbuch, Innsbruck, Verlaganstalt Tyrolia, 1986, p. 11
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 雪崩 . In: 世界 大 百科 事 典 第 2 版 at kotobank.jp. Hitachi Solutions, accessed May 24, 2012 (Japanese).
- ^ John William Robertson (JW): New East . 1918 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
- ↑ https://istina.msu.ru/media/publications/article/600/ac8/9771047/Ivanov2015Kursk.pdf
- ↑ The white grave in Kleinwalsertal: contemporary witness remembers the biggest avalanche accident in our region . ( allgaeu.life [accessed January 25, 2018]).
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Chronicle of the most serious avalanche accidents. In: rhein-zeitung.de . December 28, 1999, accessed February 6, 2017.
- ^ Weißer Sonntag 1975 spiegel.de, April 14, 1975, accessed December 31, 2018.
- ^ ZDF: today, March 2, 1985
- ↑ Avalanche Kills 40 Climbers in Soviet Central Asia nytimes.com, July 18, 1990, accessed February 6, 2017.
- ↑ Leonid Troshchinenko
- ↑ http://www.centralasia-travel.com/en/expeditions/lenin/history
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Neuf morts, dont un Suisse, dans une avalanche au Mont-Blanc. In: rts.ch . July 13, 2012, accessed January 17, 2020 (French).
- ↑ a b c Avalanches with serious consequences over and over again. In: orf.at . January 19, 2017, accessed January 17, 2020.
- ↑ http://www.geo.uzh.ch/~chuggel/files_download/kolka/060102da_rahel.pdf
- ↑ http://www.diemtigtal.ch/index.php?section=news&cmd=details&newsid=19
- ↑ Julian Rohrer: Sebastian Haag was at Mount Manaslu: “I left a dying woman behind to dig for buried subjects”. In: Focus Online . December 23, 2012, accessed October 14, 2018 .
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Over 80 killed in avalanches in Pakistan and Afghanistan In: orf.at . February 5, 2017, accessed January 17, 2020.
- ↑ Death toll from Pakistan avalanche rises to 77. In: sbs.com.au . January 17, 2020, accessed on January 17, 2020.
- ↑ Pakistan: Winter Emergency 2020 - Situation Report No. 05 (24 January 2020). In: reliefweb.int . January 24, 2020, accessed on February 5, 2020.
- ↑ Almost 40 avalanche deaths in Turkey: Rescuers also buried. In: orf.at . February 5, 2020, accessed February 5, 2020.
- ↑ BASIN DUYURUSU Van'daki İkinci Çığ Altında Kalanlara müdahale - 5. In: afad.gov.tr . February 6, 2020, accessed February 6, 2020 (Turkish).