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揭秘雪崩 Secret avalanche One day in February 1999, a few skiers walked gracefully down the hillside, and the snow was silhouetted against them, like swallows flying in the snow. Suddenly, Kacha noise, followed by a mass of snow fog from behind them rushed down, quickly buried their shadows. They woke up from narcissism: the avalanche occurred but everything was too late...... The snow fog rolled up their rush, rush along the snow with the speed towards the mountain torrents, the snow is more and more, faster and faster, the way of the forest zone tried to stop running the snow, but almost all the confrontation with the flow of snow tree water miserably broken. After the forest belt, there were some residents rooms, and the residents had no time to leave the house, and they were swept away with the house by the running snow. Along the 4 kilometer strip, trees, villages, fields, electric wires are in ruins...... Spared. The avalanche reached an average speed of 250 kilometers per hour, more than two times the speed of the express train at that time. It had a power of 104~105 mj. If a person is unlucky enough to be hit by it, the impact on the chest alone can equal 15 tons of a truck running over the body. Avalanches occur as if by chance, when they happen, where they occur, and are difficult to fathom. Fall like a snowflake, or talk loudly in the mountains will trigger an avalanche, the the Alps is likely to disturb the avalanche of snow skiers quiet, thus causing the sudden disaster. Is avalanche really so unpredictable? In fact, avalanche is also conditional, the slope of avalanche selected slope is generally at 25 degrees to 45 degrees. If the slope is too steep, snow because of gravity and frequent decline, is not easy to accumulate to form a thick layer of snow on the hillside, if the hillside slope is too low, the snow did not decline, and can not form the avalanche. The avalanche will generally choose the line as trench pits. Based on these slopes and routes, peo