Minding the gap (Photo: Geus) A map of the Uummannaq Fjord system. The red dot indicates the location of the 2017 Karrat Fjord incident. The green dot indicates the location of the Kigarsima area (Map: Google Maps) The Kigarsima area as it appeared in 2015 and 2021....
An avalanche Saturday morning spread a wall of snow four metres high over a 300m section of northern Norwegian road (Photo: Narvik Havn) When the E6 motorway through the Kvænangsfjellet pass closes during the winter due to the threat of avalanche — something that...
Jan Mayen is a 373 km² island located between the Greenland Sea and the European Arctic Ocean. It is topped by the 2,277-metre-high Beerenbergs. The island belongs to Norway. (Photo: Wikipedia) According to the NTB news agency, two people have died in an avalanche on...
Several houses were completely destroyed. More than 200 rescue workers and volunteers participated in the search. (Photo: MCHS Krsk) On January 09, 2021, shortly after midnight, an avalanche hit the Russian ski resort of Gore Otdelnaya, near Norilsk. Five residential...