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• Avalanche net — Avalanche nets (snow avalanche protection nets, snow nets) are flexible snow supporting structures for avalanche control, constructed of steel or nylon cables or straps held by steel poles, optionally supplied with compression anchors downhill.… …   Wikipedia

• avalanche — /av euh lanch , lahnch /, n., v., avalanched, avalanching. n. 1. a large mass of snow, ice, etc., detached from a mountain slope and sliding or falling suddenly downward. 2. anything like an avalanche in suddenness and overwhelming quantity: an… …   Universalium

• Galtür Avalanche — On February 23 1999 the worst Alpine avalanche in 40 years. It killed 31 people in the small Alpine village of Galtür, Austria. Three major weather systems originating from the Atlantic accounted for large snow falls totalling around four metres… …   Wikipedia

• K2 — This article is about the South Asian mountain. For the mountain in Alberta, see Mount K2. For other uses, see K2 (disambiguation). K2 K2, summer 2006 …   Wikipedia

• Transport in Milford Sound — The goal of over half a million people per year. Transport in (and to) Milford Sound, New Zealand, is characterised by the remoteness of the area in which it is located. As the most popular tourism destination in the South Island, it nonetheless… …   Wikipedia

• Howard Somervell — Theodore Howard Somervell OBE (16 April 1890 23 January 1975) was a British surgeon, mountaineer and missionary who was a member of two expeditions to Mount Everest in the 1920s, and then spent nearly 40 years working as a doctor in India.Early… …   Wikipedia

• Aspen Highlands — Infobox ski area name= Aspen Highlands picture= DSCN0395.jpg caption= Summit of Aspen Highlands and the backside of the Highland Bowl from Buttermilk Mountain location= Colorado, USA nearest city= Aspen, Colorado lat degrees= 39 lat minutes= 10… …   Wikipedia

• Trans-Alaska Pipeline System — The Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS), usually called the Alyeska Pipeline in Alaska or the Alaska Pipeline elsewhere, is a major U.S. oil pipeline connecting oil fields in Alaska s North Slope to a North Pacific seaport where the oil can be… …   Wikipedia

• Mount Olympus (Utah) — Mount Olympus Elevation 9,026 ft (2,751 m) [1 …   Wikipedia

• Ralph Budd — (1879 ndash; 1962) was an American railroad executive. BiographyOne of six children of John and Mary Budd, Ralph was born on a farm near Waterloo, Iowa on August 20, 1879. After graduating at nineteen from Des Moines’ Highland Park College, he… …   Wikipedia

• Dudipatsar — Lake, Lulusar Dudipatsar National Park Location Kaghan Valley, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Coordinates …   Wikipedia