SNOW RESCUE

Andes air crash survivors head for Chile mine
Reuters Africa
That was when they decided to dig up some of the dead bodies they had buried in the snow nearby and eat them. Survivor Jose Luis Inciarte said the Chilean ...

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Tales of surviving entrapment with sanity intact
The Associated Press
A snow cave was their only chance. One collapsed. The second was home for 13 nights. They were always cold, passing the time keeping a long tunnel from ...

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msnbc.com
Trapped, but still sane: Survivors speak out
msnbc.com
A snow cave was their only chance. One collapsed. The second was home for 13 nights. They were always cold, passing the time keeping a long tunnel from ...

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Black cats need homes too
The Barrie Advance
When you add these creatures to the already large numbers of strays and abandoned cats – you've got a problem says Carol Snow, director of Stray Cats Rescue ...

Windfall for East Lancs mountain rescue team
Lancashire Telegraph
... assist blue-light ambulances trapped by snow and ice. Graham Dalley, mountain rescue team chairman, said: “This couldn't have happened at a better time. ...

AOL News
Remains Found of US Hiker Missing for 21 Years
AOL News
... but when they returned to the site they found a snow and ice avalanche had covered the whole area. "The rescue leadership at that time said it was ...

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Warren Record
Tragedy strikes on Lake Gaston
Warren Record
The waters of Lake Gaston became tragic last weekend, as they claimed two lives in the Myrick Estates area. According to Major Bruce ...

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Mountaineering: Crewe club-mates enjoy climber's paradise
Crewe Chronicle
“We had to cross a snow-covered pass at 4200m involving over 1000m of ascent on loose rock, snow and ice. “That was followed by a hazardous descent that ...

Cans and pans — 2 Utah-based cookbooks offer food-storage suggestions
Deseret News
by Trent and Michelle Snow (Cedar Fort Press, $14.99), came off the press last spring. The core of the plan is homemade meal kits, complete with cooking ...

Commissioners hear 1-cent requests
Billings Gazette
The office uses a mechanically unreliable 1976 Bombardier snow cat belonging to the road and bridge department, which carries only three people with no room ...

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Idaho Mountain Express and Guide
Who's in the grand parade?
Idaho Mountain Express and Guide
This is a single haflinger filly, named Cindy pulling a Studebaker elliptic spring buggy found in Iowa and restored by Fred Hodges and Gary Snow of Snow's ...

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Be frank with trapped miners, NASA says
Ninemsn
The miners' experience and expectation that rescue would take a long time at the depth they were at had to be taken into account, he said, drawing parallels ...

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AOL News
Remains Found of US Hiker Missing for 21 Years
AOL News
... but when they returned to the site they found a snow and ice avalanche had covered the whole area. "The rescue leadership at that time said it was ...

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Sudden snowfall catches Austrians on the wrong foot
Xinhua
31 (Xinhua) -- For most countries in the Northern Hemisphere, August is still at the height of the summer, but in Austria it has started to snow in highland ...

Globe and Mail
Flashpoint leads in Gemini nominations
Globe and Mail
Ed Lane (Hugh Dillon), Sgt. Gregory Parker (Enrico Colantoni) and Kevin Wordsworth (Michael Cram) race to rescue a politician when a radio host threatens to ...

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Family played key role in finding Nolan, Vietti
kgw.com
"It was agony to think that we'd left our kids in a snow cave," explained Anthony Vietti's aunt, Teri Preiss. The official search for climbers Anthony ...

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The Arctic – Norwegian Policy and International Cooperation
ISRIA (registration)
Your research vessel Snow Dragon set off on its fourth expedition to the Arctic Ocean this summer. On this picture we see the Yellow River research station ...

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Final Fantasy 13 Review
Moviematics (blog)
So if character Snow learns Fira in the ravager role, he can only use that spell when he's a ravager, he win't have access to it when he's playing a medic. ...

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Alpine Blend Aiesel a Must in Extreme Conditions
NewsMaker (press release)
Mr Case said during the current extreme cold snap, RACV has had to rescue an increasing number of people stranded in snow field car parks because the ...

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Otago Daily Times
Snow challenge for dogs and handlers
Otago Daily Times
... country for the snow-covered mountains around Wanaka at the weekend as they sought to join an exclusive club of avalanche rescue accredited specialists. ...