Avalanche

What's the word I'm looking for? Not waterfall.

What's the word I'm looking for? Avalanche.

Avalanche, thank you.

Avalanche of just disaster ensues.

By the way, if you win one that you're not supposed to win, then it usually goes well after that.

It's an old superstition in sports betting, but it really is a tried and true thing.

On the west face, the glacier overhangs a precipice and, by constantly crowding forward and breaking off, has formed a nearly vertical face of ice which is in one place 325 feet thick.

I have seen passengers on the trains who were surprised to learn that the ice in this very place is anything more than a yard in depth and who regarded with misplaced pity and contempt those who have any larger ideas on the subject.

Avalanches from this hanging wall of ice are rather rare, as the length of the wall is not great and the glacier probably moves very slowly.

I have never had the good fortune to witness one, though the thunders of these icefalls are often heard by the railroad men who live at Lagan, just six miles distant.

They must indeed be magnificent spectacles, as the ice must needs fall more than 4,000 feet to reach the base of the cliff.

In the Johnny Cougar story, it says...

Is it the Johnny Cougar one? Yeah, next week, Avalanche! That's more like it.

Wow.

I'll

It's like right now, Nims died from Nims expedition, the elite expedition, yeah? Yeah.

He, I just got told that he got lost in Broad Peak, Pakistan, when he was doing, because there was a cruise at Avalanche.

Yeah.

So...

All right, story number three this week.

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Avalanches are not uncommon.

And who do we rely on for help when these happen? We rely on avalanche trained dogs.

So I thought it was fitting to introduce you to an avalanche puppy that's being trained currently in Deer Valley Resort for this coming winter.

But mixed in with those ordinary puppy lessons is something extraordinary.

Duke is learning to search.

Avalanche dogs are not simply mascots for a ski resort.

They are highly trained members of mountain rescue teams, and their ability to locate humans sent beneath snow can provide rescuers with a critical advantage when time is running out.

Wasatch Backcountry Rescue, the organization supporting professional mountain rescue throughout the Wasatch, says its primary purpose is rapid response to avalanche rescue, winter mountain rescue, and medical evacuation incidents using trained professionals and searching rescue dogs.