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Tahoe avalanche: What causes seemingly safe snow slopes to collapse? A physicist and avid skier explains

Written by Nathalie Vriend, Associate Professor of Thermo Fluid Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder

A skier at Palisades Tahoe, home of the 1960 Winter Olympics and site of a small but deadly avalanche in 2024.AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli

An avalanche swept up skiers at Lake Tahoe’s largest ski resort on Jan. 10, 2024, as a 150-foot-wide sheet of snow slid down a mountain slope into a pile 10 feet deep. One person died in the avalanche and...

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