Olympic Skier and Father Killed in Turkish Ski Resort Hotel Fire A fire at the Kervansaray Hotel at the Uludag ski resort in northwestern Turkey claimed the lives of former Olympic skier Berkin Usta and his father, Yahya Usta. The blaze, which erupted around 5:30 a.m. local time Thursday, comes just two months after a similar tragedy at another Turkish winter resort that left 79 dead. Related: 66 People Killed in […] Fire Firebrains | March 27, 2025 0 Comments
The 5 Deadliest Earthquakes Ever Recorded According to the United States Geological Survey, an “earthquake is a term used to describe both sudden slip on a fault, and the resulting ground shaking and radiated seismic energy caused by the slip, or by volcanic or magmatic activity, or other sudden stress changes in the earth.” Every year, there are around 20,000 earthquakes that occur, and throughout history, […] Brains Jesse | August 11, 2021 0 Comments
VIDEO: Snowboarding Began 300-Years Ago in Turkey [arve url="https://vimeo.com/186450193"] SnowBrains | May 3, 2021 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
Woman Fell 115-Feet to Her Death After Slipping While Taking Photo to Celebrate End of Lockdown A woman fell more than 110-feet off a cliff to her death last weekend after posing for a photo to celebrate the end of the coronavirus lockdown. Following weeks of sheltering-in-place, Olesia Suspitsina, 31, went hiking with a female friend to the Düden Waterfalls in Antalya, Turkey. Kazakhstan native Suspitsina climbed over a safety fence to pose for the picture on […] CragBrains | May 1, 2020 1 Comment
VIDEO: Children Trigger Huge Avalanche While Sledding [arve url="https://youtu.be/rcRqiyVtZwU"] AvyBrains | February 18, 2020 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
Second Avalanche Kills Dozens of Rescuers in Turkey: Death Toll Rises to 38 Rescuers arrived at the scene of a recent avalanche in Eastern Turkey when a secondary avalanche was triggered, killing 33 people. The death toll at the horrific scene has now risen to 38, and 53 have been injured, Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Authority (AFAD) reports. An avalanche struck late on Tuesday, Feb. 4, killing five people near the Turkish mountain […] Avalanche Martin Kuprianowicz | February 5, 2020 0 Comments
VIDEO: Snowboarder Saves Mountain Guests From Rogue Snowmobile [iframe id=”http://www.dailymail.co.uk/embed/video/1403895.html”] As a rogue snowmobile was charging down the hill, a heroic snowboarder swooped in, jumped on the snowmobile, and was able to stop it before it hit anyone. This all took place at the Turkish resort Uludag earlier this week. The original driver of the snowmobile apparently lost control in an attempt to avoid a collision with another […] Industry News Chris Wallner | February 2, 2017 0 Comments
5 Ski Resorts That Will Have Powder This Thanksgiving Weekend With winter touching down across the entire US, it’s high time to move into the mountains and start frolicking in the powder. A handful of ski resorts have opened this season with a large number planning on Turkey Day first chairs. Here are a few resorts which will be open for Thanksgiving and have some nice powder to help burn off those […] Weather Dylan Cautela | November 22, 2016 0 Comments
California BASE Jumper Dies While Working on BASE Jumping Death Documentary “Wingsuiters are dying at a rate that is unheard of in any of sport. It seems like not a month goes by without a well known wingsuiter/BASE jumper dying these days.” – Outside magazine editor, Grayson Schaffer Californian BASE jumper Ian Flanders, 37, died while BASE jumping Tuesday this week in eastern Turkey […] Industry News SnowBrains | July 23, 2015 3 Comments
NASA: Turkey’s Glaciers Have Shrunken by Half NASA just wrote this article today about Turkey’s shrinking glaciers. Yes, Turkey has glacier and high peaks and their glacier half lost half of their collective mass since 1970. Turkey’s highest elevation is Mt. Ararat at 16,859′. Turkey had 14 main glaciers in the 1970s and 5 of them have completely disappeared. The skiing […] Brains SnowBrains | July 2, 2015 0 Comments
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