Describes the causes of avalanches, different kinds of avalanches, avalanche safety, and methods used by some states to control avalanches, and tells the true story of an avalanche survivor.
Photographs and easy-to-follow text introduces young readers to the dangers of landslides and avalanches, and describes what causes them, explains how to predict and prevent them; and also profiles several landslides and avalanches throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
