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Jeff Graham, who had not spoken, struck a match, and holding it above his head, peered around the interior of the tent, which he observed had sagged a good deal from the impact of the avalanche's breath, though the stakes held their places in the snow.
Klondike Nuggets and How Two Boys Secured Them Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878
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"There's a fierce gray bird with a bending beak," that the boys loved so dearly to "declaim;" and another poem by this last author, which we all liked to read, partly from a childish love of the tragic, and partly for its graphic description of an avalanche's movement: --
A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA) Lucy Larcom 1858
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Yungay for a short while before walking up to the original cemetery where there was a large white statue of Christ standing on a knoll overlooking the old Yungay and the avalanche's path.
TravelPod.com TravelStream? ? Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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"There are these amazing, poignant stories of people in the avalanche's path and I found myself fascinated by the stories."
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"There are these amazing, poignant stories of people in the avalanche's path and I found myself fascinated by the stories."
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Although it looks like it's designed to protect your head and neck from injury, it is in fact built to keep you afloat, or on top of the avalanche's surface, thus preventing burial and asphyxiation, the number one killer of avalanches.
Gadgetreview 2009
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We walked around old Yungay for a short while before walking up to the original cemetery where there was a large white statue of Christ standing on a knoll overlooking the old Yungay and the avalanche's path.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009
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When trapped under an avalanche's debris field, people can only hope that someone starts digging for them soon.
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When trapped under an avalanche's debris field, people can only hope that someone starts digging for them soon.
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