Controlled avalanche barrels down mountainside

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  • 5 years ago
Helicopters dropped controlled explosives on a Switzerland mountain this week, causing several avalanches. Reuters reports that these controlled explosives are a way to remove additional amounts of snow, so that an avalanche doesn't occur unexpectedly in the future.

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