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Three Adults Killed in Alaska this Week | Couple swept Away by Glacial River and Women Trapped when Snow Ceiling Collapsed

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National Park Service rangers Monday recovered the bodies of a hiking couple who went missing along the Sanford River in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska the agency said Tuesday. Rochelle Renken and Michael Huffman, both 62 and from Columbia, Missouri, were on a six-day backpacking trip in the park but did not meet a scheduled air-taxi pickup Wednesday, […]

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Three Ski-Tourers Killed by Avalanche in Switzerland over the Weekend

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A group of five Spanish ski-tourers were caught in an avalanche on the Aletsch glacier in southern Switzerland on Saturday afternoon. Other skiers witnessed the accident and alerted the authorities. Three people were pronounced dead at the scene and the other two have minor injuries. The group left the Knokordia mountain hut earlier in the day and were heading to the Fiescheralp […]

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AvyBrains | April 2, 2018
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