19 Dead Recovered After Avalanche Struck Student Climbing Group in Himalayan Mountains, India | 10 Still Missing Rescuers have recovered the bodies of 19 climbers after an avalanche struck the Indian Himalayan mountains. Bad weather has hampered the search for ten still missing. “Nineteen bodies have been recovered. Ten people are still missing.” – state disaster agency spokesperson Ridhim Aggarwal told AFP One of the students rescued, Sunil Lalwani, credited the instructors for preventing more fatalities. “We […] Avalanche AvyBrains | October 7, 2022 0 Comments
India Qualifies Its First Athlete For The Beijing Winter Olympics India’s first official competitor in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will be an alpine skier. As well as being the first, 31-year old Arif Khan is the only Indian athlete qualified thus far. Khan will be competing in the Slalom event. He recently qualified for the Olympic Games at an Entry League FIS event on the indoor slopes of Ski […] Olympics Jake Vigesaa | December 4, 2021 1 Comment
Austrian Ski Resort Opens on Last Year’s Snow Austria’s Pass Thurn ski area has not received any snow yet for the ski season. Luckily, the resort allowed skiers to ski in late October and start the season on snow from last season. Related: Mammoth Mountain, CA “Snow Farming:” A Dutiful Art on an Absolutely Massive Scale The ski area, located near Kitzbühel, is 4,180 feet in elevation. Although the […] Industry News Breya Bergom | November 3, 2021 0 Comments
NASA: What Caused the Catastrophic Landslide That Killed Hundreds in the Himalayas? This post first appeared on the NASA Earth Observatory website Sheer, glacier-covered ridges separated by gorges soar over the Chamoli district in northern India. On the morning of February 7, 2021, this spectacular terrain in Uttarakhand turned deadly when a torrent of rock, ice, sediment, and water surged through the Rishiganga River valley past multiple villages and slammed into two […] SnowBrains | February 26, 2021 0 Comments
A Crater Lake In India Quickly Changed From Green To Pink A crater lake in west-central India quickly changed from green to pink, and experts believe salinity and algae are the reasons. NASA revealed through photographs how the waters of Lake Lonar went from green to pink in just a matter of days. For now, the reason why remains a mystery. According to the Indian site Economic Times, the change in the […] Brains Sebastian Opazo | July 10, 2020 0 Comments
India Air Pollution Dropped So Much That The Himalaya Are Visible For the First Time in 30-Years! For the first time in 30 years, the Himalayan Mountains are visible in India due to lower levels of air pollution as a result of a nationwide lockdown. It’s the first time millions of people living within 100 miles of the world’s largest mountain range have been able to see them in all their beauty. India, a country of nearly […] SnowBrains | April 8, 2020 2 Comments
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Canadian University Professor Missing in Himalayas After Avalanche Struck his Camp Peter Wittek, 37, is missing in India after an avalanche struck during an expedition. The University of Toronto Professor was part of a team of six climbing Mount Trishul in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, India. Related: Avalanches Are the Most Frequent Cause of Weather Fatalities in Almost All Mountainous States According to Gripped, Wittek was alone in his tent […] Avalanche AvyBrains | October 3, 2019 0 Comments
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