1.   Avalanches had buried almost everyone.

2.   Houses, railroads and highways were buried by avalanches.

3.   If an avalanche buries some members, the others switch their units to receive mode, and then listen for the beeps emitted by buried transmitters.

4.   In time an avalanche of abuses buried the ideals that guided the earliest competitors.

5.   A snowboarder who nearly qualified for the U.S. Olympic team was killed when an avalanche at Donner Summit buried him headfirst.

6.   An avalanche buried an army patrol hunting Kurdish rebels in eastern Turkey on Sunday, the military said.

7.   An avalanche had buried many of the bodies, making the recovery effort even more difficult.

8.   An avalanche buried five children who were skiing in an open pit mine in Siberia, killing them all, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported Saturday.

9.   An avalanche buried part of a village in the Kashmir region of Pakistan Tuesday, killing at least eight people.

10.   Heavy wind and snow lashed the French Alps on Saturday while a large avalanche buried ski shelters, authorities searched for eight missing skiers and road closures snarled traffic.