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2012 Tunnel Creek avalanche

Fatal snow avalanche in Washington state, US

Fatal snow avalanche in Washington state, US

|USA |USA Washington The 2012 Tunnel Creek avalanche occurred in the northwest United States on February 19, 2012. It happened at about noon PST in the Tunnel Creek section of Stevens Pass, a mountain pass through the Cascade Mountains of Washington, at the border of King and Chelan counties.{{cite map

The avalanche was characterized as a slab avalanche, or 200 ft across and 3 ft deep. Three days before the avalanche occurred, a large snow storm dumped 32 in into Stevens Pass, which resulted in the unstable snow pack that was disrupted by skiers on their excursion.

Avalanche

The avalanche was triggered when sixteen of the nation's top free skiers and free snowboarders were making a run together. They had been gathered by Chris Rudolph, a charismatic marketing director at the attached ski area. carrying away five skiers.

One of the skiers wedged himself between two trees and avoided being swept away as the avalanche rushed over him. Another skier, Elyse Saugstad, deployed an avalanche survival airbag and suffered minor injuries, despite being trapped until her fellow skiers rescued her.

The Wellington avalanche of 1910, the deadliest in U.S. history with 96 fatalities, occurred in the vicinity 102 years earlier. It happened about a mile (1.6 km) to the northwest, along the Great Northern Railway, in the early hours of March 1.

Media coverage

The avalanche attracted a high level of media attention because of the experience and notoriety of all sixteen skiers and snowboarders on the trip. Participants included professional competitive skiers and members of the freeskiing media, including reporters and a photographer from Powder Magazine. In December 2012, The New York Times published an interactive multimedia feature piece called "Snow Fall" that was critically acclaimed, including winning the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.

References

References

  1. Branch, John. (December 20, 2012). "Snow Fall". [[The New York Times]].
  2. (February 19, 2012). "Tunnel Creek Avalanche Incident".
  3. Michelson., Megan. (November 14, 2012). "Tunnel Vision". Outside.
  4. Patty Morrison. (February 19, 2012). "Tunnel Creek Avalanche Incident: Preliminary Report". [[Northwest Weather and Avalanche Center]].
  5. Nolan, Hamilton. (December 20, 2012). "The Most Popular Avalanche in America". Gawker.
  6. Abbot, Nate. (December 20, 2012). "Mainstream media addresses Tunnel Creek avalanche".
  7. Hecht, Anthony. (December 21, 2012). "The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek". The Stranger.
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