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An aerial view of the snow-covered Bhadarwah valley is seen about 205 km from Jammu, the winter capital of Kashmir, India, on Dec. 16. Six Indian Army soldiers were killed and one is missing in an avalanche that struck the Siachen Glacier on Dec. 16, in Sub-sector Hanief of the glacier when troops were moving between posts at 19,000 feet. A rescue operation is underway to trace the missing soldier. A medium danger avalanche warning was issued for the area close to the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir and Banihal town on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway as one-way traffic was restored on the arterial road connecting the valley with rest of the country.
4 climbers presumed dead in Mt. McKinley avalanche
Kevin Wright / National Parks Service
On the second day of rescue efforts, climbers skirt the edge of the debris field from a June 14, avalanche that may have buried four Japanese climbers on the West Buttress route of Mount McKinley in Alaska in this June 15 photo.
National Park Service
Searchers examine flag belonging to Japanese climbers.
All are from Miyagi Prefecture -- the same area devastated by the 2011 quake and tsunami -- and were descending the mountain when the avalanche hit.
If confirmed, the deaths would be the worst accident on McKinley since 1992, when four Canadian climbers died.
-- Reported by msnbc.com's Miguel Llanos
National Park Service
National Park Rangers search for signs of Japanese climbers.
Kent Miller
The 11,200 foot camp.
Flash floods kill at least 13 in Nepal
Reuters
A woman breaks down with her son as the search for her missing husband continues.
A flash flood was reportedly caused by an avalanche in the Annapurna mountain range, in Kaski district of Nepal, May 5. At least 13 people, including three foreigners are confirmed to have died during the flood in Pokhara and adjoining villages in Kaski district.
Reuters
The body of a victim is retrieved at the bank of the Seti River by locals.
At least 13 people were killed Saturday as the walls of water struck without warning.
Pakistan army chief vows not to give up on avalanche victims
Half a dozen tattered yellow flags poke from a huge boulder-strewn expanse of gravel and ice. They mark where the buildings of Pakistan's Gayari army base once stood.
In the early hours of April 7 thousands of tonnes of ice, rock and snow crashed down onto the camp, the battalion headquarters of the 6th Northern Light Infantry 13,000 feet up in the mountains of Kashmir.
Aamir Qureshi / AFP - Getty Images
Pakistani military personnel use heavy machinery as they search for avalanche victims during an ongoing operation at Gayari camp near the Siachen glacier on April 18, 2012.
The disaster that entombed 129 soldiers and 11 civilians has been described as an avalanche, but the dense, rocky rubble that now covers the camp to a depth of around 200 feet looks more like the aftermath of a landslide.
Avalanche brings calls for glacier demilitarization
More than 450 rescuers are working at the site near the de facto border with India in the militarized region of Kashmir, though experts have said there is virtually no chance of finding any survivors.
Pakistan Ministry of Defense via NBC News
Photographs of some of the soldiers missing after an avalanche hit a Pakistani army camp on April 7. The army has listed the names of the missing soldiers and civilians on its public relations website. There have been no death announcements and the military says it will not abandon the search and rescue effort.
"We will continue to make all efforts. Whether it takes 10 days or 10 months or if it takes three years, we are not going to give up on this," said General Ashfaq Kayani, Pakistan's army chief. "If we have to dig out this mountain, we'll dig it out."
-- Agence France Presse and Reuters contributed to this report
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A Pakistani soldier works with a sniffer dog to search for avalanche victims on April 18, 2012.
Mohammad Sajjad / AP
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Rescue workers search for victims after avalanche in Switzerland
Jean-christophe Bott / EPA
An aerial view shows rescuers searching for persons under an avalanche at Col de la Croix in the Skiing area The Diablerets, Switzerland, on Wednesday. It is assumed that two persons are buried under the snow.
Jean-Christophe Bott / AP
Picture taken out of a rescue helicopter shows people searching for victims after an avalanche near Col de la Croix mountain, Swiss Alps, near Les Diablerets, Switzerland on Wednesday.
Deadly avalanches wreak havoc in Indian Kashmir
Dar Yasin / AP
A Kashmiri villager slips as he clears snow off the roof of his house in Gagangeri, northeast of Srinagar on Feb. 23.
AP Reports: Two massive avalanches in snowbound regions of Indian-controlled Kashmir killed at least 16 soldiers, and at least three others were feared trapped in a military camp that was partially buried under snow, an official said Thursday.
Farooq Khan / EPA
A Kashmiri woman gestures after her hut was buried under snow due to an avalanche on Feb. 23.
Col. K.S. Grewal said three of the soldiers were killed in the mountainous area of Sonamarg and 13 were killed at a large army camp in Dawar, a town close to the heavily militarized cease-fire line that divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan. Hundreds of thousands of Indian troops are stationed along this de-facto border. Both avalanches took place late Wednesday night, and state officials warned more may occur in mountain areas.
Dar Yasin / AP
Kashmiri Villagers inspect damage after an avalanche in Ramwari on Feb. 23.
Rescue workers in Dawar pulled out 13 survivors who were being treated at a local army hospital, Grewal said. Three soldiers there were still believed to be trapped under the snow, he said. Dawar, in the frontier Gurez region, remains cut off from the rest of Kashmir for nearly five months every year as heavy snowfall and rains block road links to the region.
Farooq Khan / EPA
A vehicle is burried under snow in Gagangeri, northeast of Srinagar, the summer capital of Kashmir in India on Feb. 23.
Dar Yasin / AP
Kashmiri villagers remove fallen trees as they search for belongings at the site where their homes stood, now buried in snow after an avalanche on Feb. 23.
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9 die in Kosovo avalanche; child survives
Valdrin Xhemaj / EPA
Members of Kosovo Security Force (KSF) and fire fighters search for a missing person at the site where an avalanche hit houses in the village of Restelica, Kosovo, Feb. 12. At least nine people died and one is missing after an avalanche hit the village of Restelica in southern Kosovo on Feb. 11. Police said some 15 houses were swallowed up by the avalanche but only two were occupied at the time.
AP
Members of Kosovo Security Forces (KSF) and fire fighters search for a missing person at the site where an avalanche hit houses in the village of Restelica, southern Kosovo, Sunday, Feb. 12. Rescuers pulled a 5-year-old girl alive from the rubble of a house flattened by a massive avalanche that killed both of her parents and at least seven of her relatives in the remote mountain village.
NATO peacekeepers, deployed in Kosovo to end the armed conflict between Serbs and Kosovo Albanians in 1999, had been called in to help local authorities in the rescue operation, but were unable to land a helicopter in the blizzard.
"No bigger tragedy has ever struck this region," said local district official Behar Ramadani. "Two brothers with their wives and children have been killed."
--Reported by msnbc.com staff and wire services
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Members of Kosovo Security Force (KSF) carry an avalanche victim in the village of Restelica, Kosovo, Feb. 12.
Dog found alive 4 days after Montana avalanche
Natasha Baydakova / AP
In this photo released by Natasha Baydakova on Wednesday Jan. 4, 2011 showing a Welsh corgi dog named Ole.
AP reports: Search and rescue team member Bill Whittle said he was "positive" that the Welsh corgi — named Ole — had been buried in Saturday's avalanche.
"The avalanche guys were up there on Monday investigating and they were looking for the dog too and never seen any signs," he said.
But on Wednesday, Ole showed up exhausted and hungry back at the motel, four miles from where the slide occurred, the Billings Gazette reported.
Read the full story here.
Shelling the slopes of a mountain to prevent avalanches
Kazbek Basayev / Reuters
A member of an emergency services special unit fires a shell towards the upper slopes to clear snow buildup above the Transcaucasian highway some 68 miles from the southern Russian city of Vladikavkaz on March 13. Avalanches are a constant threat on the road which is the only route connecting Russia to South Ossetia.