19 interesting facts about avalanches

Every year, more than 150 people become victims of snow avalanches around the world.

On particularly steep slopes, with an inclination angle of more than 50 degrees, snow avalanches do not occur, since the slope is too large for snow to accumulate. At the same time, cases of avalanches descending from slopes inclined by only 10-15 degrees were recorded.

Since the conditions that lead to an avalanche form very quickly, there is no the technical ability to predict them in advance, or even more so to prevent them.

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