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PukcL2y.Sale of this material beeied tre LRry.  \n# Nature's Fury\n\nAVALANCHES  \nJohn Hamilton  \nVISIT US ATwwW.ABDOPUB.COM  \nPublished by ABDO Publishing Company,4940 Viking Drive,Suite 622,Edina,Minnesota 55435.Copyright 2006 by Abdo Consulting Group,Inc.International copyrights reserved in all countries.No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher.ABDO&DaughtersTM is a trademark and logo of ABDO Publishing Company.  \nPrinted in the United States.  \nEditor:Paul Joseph  \nGraphic Design:John Hamilton  \nCover Design:Neil Klinepier  \nCover Photo:Corbis  \nInterior Photos and Illustrations:  \nCorbis,p.1,3,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,17,19,20,21,23,25,26,27,28,29AP/Wide World Photos,p.4,16,24,32  \n# Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data\n\nHamilton,John,1959-  \nAvalanches /John Hamilton.p.cm.—(Nature's fury)Includes index.ISBN 1-59679-328-7  \n1.Avalanches—Juvenile literature.I.Title  \nQC929.A8H362006551.3'07—dc22  \n2005049025  \nCONTENTS  \nAvalanche!……………………………………  \nWhite Death…………………………………  \nKinds of Avalanches………………………………………………  \nWhat Causes Avalanches?………………………………………  \nControlling Avalanches ……………………………………  \nA True-Life Avalanche Story………………………  \nAvalanche Safety………………………………………………  \nGlossary………………………………………………  \nWeb Sites ………………………………………  \nIndex…………………………………………………  \n……………………………4  \n……………………………………8  \n……………………………………………………12  \n………………………………………………14  \n………………………………………………20  \n…………………………………………………22  \n………………………………26  \n………………………………………………30  \n……………………………………………31  \n………………………………………………32  \n# AVALANCHE\n\nIN FEBRUARY 2005,IN THE MOUNTAIN VILLAGE OF VALTENGU,Kashmir,40-year-old schoolteacher Bashir Malik stepped out of his house one snowyevening to run an errand.He'd only gone a short distance when he suddenly heard adeafening rumble in the hills above the village.  \ncollapsed homes.Others were carriedoff by the avalanche.They died horribledeaths,either by being hit by debrisor suffocating under the packed snow.One witness described an ocean of snowsweeping everything away.In a matter  \nThe ground under Malik's feet beganto tremble.He turned back towardhis home and gasped.An avalanchedescended on the town like a wall ofwhite death,burying everything in itspath.Malik could only watch helplessly  \nof seconds,theavalanche killed122 people,nearlyone fourth of theentire village.  \nas his home andthe homes of hisneighbors wereswept away bythe river of snow.Malik lost all 13members of hisfamily that day.“How I survived isa miracle,\"he later  \nValtengu liesin the Indian-controlled part ofKashmir.Unusuallyheavy snowfalls  \nacross the entire Himalayan region thatwinter triggered many avalanches.It wasKashmir's snowiest winter in 15 years.The area's remote location,coupled withthe thick snow,made rescue efforts very  \ntold a reporter.\"But what good is life forme now?”  \nMany of the houses in the villagewere buried under heaps of heavy snow.Some victims were crushed in their  \ndifficult.More than 300 people werekilled in the region,and many hundredsmore were reported missing.  \nDeadly snow avalanches are aforce of nature that can occur on anyslope under the right conditions.Thesetorrents of“white death”can descendmountainsides at frightening speeds.They've been killing for centuries,eversince people started settling in themountainous regions of the world.Onaverage,each year avalanches kill morethan 150 people worldwide.Manythousands more are injured.  \nThe alpine countries of France,Austria,Switzerland,and Italy have themost avalanches,and avalanche-relateddeaths,worldwide.One tragic trendin poorer countries is the building ofvillages higher and higher on mountainslopes,as people try to find more landfor farming or firewood.Avalanches  \nthat would have slid harmlessly intoremote wilderness areas are increasinglydamaging human settlements.  \nThe United States ranks fifth inavalanche deaths 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