An avalanche is a huge snow slide. It can kill skiers or climbers who are buried in this snow slide.
The latest cold weather brought snow to mountains and other high places. Strong winds pushed much more snow onto some places and this could slide down the mountain easily.
A group of skiers in Canterbury, on the mountains near Christchurch, were caught in an avalanche yesterday and one skier died. They were heli skiing which means a helicopter dropped them onto the mountain. They were all experienced in this kind of skiing and had two guides with them.
When the avalanche started, one man was caught by snow up to his waist so others had to dig him out. Another two men were buried. Guides managed to dig them out quite quickly, in about seven or eight minutes, but one was dead. The other one needed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation at first. He said later that all he could move was his tongue so he used his tongue to clear the snow from his nose so that he could breathe. All these men caught in the avalanche were Australian tourists.
The topic is really interesting, you should put more information and more interesting cases of snowboarders and skiers.
In my opinion I think that has to stop going to the mountain because is very dangerous and a lot of people had died in avalanche accidents to prevent this the people has to stop going there or if they really love going to skiing they have to go only with people that already knows the mountains and professionals.
This is a very interesting article,people must take care and practice more before skiers go into an avalanche.
Avalanchaes destrpy and can be very dangerous because the have huge powers and strenght that wash down almost erverything. a group of skiers got into it in Canterbury. fourtunatly they managed to survive bye helping each other as a team