11.   Adventure Consultants is the mountaineering group that organized an attempt to scale Everest last year that ended in tragedy when a blizzard hit.

12.   Blizzards hit southern Scandinavia and the Netherlands Monday, causing hundreds of accidents and forcing more than a thousand motorists to abandon their cars on snow-clogged highways.

13.   Blizzards hit the mountains, stranding hundreds.

14.   First, Picabo Street pulls out, and now this blizzard hits.

15.   In Jordan, the Meteorology Department issued a weather advisory, saying another blizzard would hit Jordan later Wednesday.

16.   When the blizzard hit, they lost their bearings and moved in the wrong direction.

17.   Genoa airport was closed Monday after a blizzard hit this northwest Italian city, airport officials said.

18.   The airport was first closed Monday after a blizzard hit Genoa, but reopened Tuesday.