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An avalanche killed at least eight skiers on a guided backcountry excursion near Lake Tahoe. CU expert Nathalie Vriend explains what happens in an avalanche and shares survival techniques—read on The ...

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Nathalie Vriend receives funding from the Moore Foundation, and in the past from the Royal Society and NERC among others. A deadly avalanche buried a group of backcountry skiers and their guides near ...