The British Broadcasting Corporation Britain’s deadliest avalanche The tragic tale of lives swept away by a crushing snow fall in Lewes. Nearly 200 years ago, in the depths of a freezing winter ...

Nearly 200 years ago, in the depths of a freezing winter, a Sussex town became the scene of the deadliest avalanche in British history. In the early hours of 27 December, 1836, people living in ...

"And then I realized I didn't have a jacket. So I borrowed the nurse's coat." The deadliest avalanche in Quebec's history Nine residents, including five children younger than eight, died in the ...

We meet the people who came face to face with the deadliest weather ... hurricanes, landslides, avalanches, ice storms and shipwrecks. Using their incredible self-shot footage we witness ...

Mount Everest's Sherpas are considering a climbing boycott following the deadliest avalanche in the mountain's history. Several Sherpas have already quit, while others are still mulling over a boycott ...

A Mount Everest avalanche last week that killed 16 Sherpas — professional Nepalese mountaineers paid to assist recreational climbers — caps off the worst three-year period for Sherpas in ...

The collapse last month of a Vale dam in the same area unleashed an avalanche of mud killing an estimated 300 people in Brazil's deadliest mining disaster Around 200 residents were evacuated from ...