1.   Each group, made up of six climbers, was roped together when the avalanche struck.

2.   A total of five ski lift employees and five restaurant workers were in the building when the avalanche struck.

3.   An avalanche struck a party of seven hikers on a mountain in northwest Scotland, killing four, police said Wednesday.

4.   An avalanche struck a village in northwestern Iceland Thursday morning, killing two people, a Civil Defense agency spokesman said.

5.   Another avalanche struck elsewhere in the same valley on Sunday, ANSA said, but no one was injured.

6.   Dozens were playing outside when the avalanche struck.

7.   Five ski lift employees and five restaurant workers were in the building when the avalanche struck.

8.   Four people were killed and two were injured when an avalanche struck members of a youth mountaineering course Saturday.

9.   Four houses and a disco were damaged when the avalanche struck.

10.   In the avalanche in Gargellen, a total of five ski lift employees and five restaurant workers were killed when the avalanche struck the building they were in.