Dry-snow slab avalanche
by Juerg Schweizer, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos, Switzerland
This typical dry.snow slab avalanche released spontaneously during a snowfalli on wind-loaded north-facing slope at a location called Steintaelli above Davos, Switzerland.
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- Europe (3895)
- Western Europe (789)
- Switzerland (149)
- Exact location (9.7878 E, 46.8062 N)
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3872 × 2592 px;
image/jpeg; 2.4 MB
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Nikon D60
Taken on 25
February
2010
Submitted on 26 January 2026
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Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0)
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Juerg Schweizer (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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