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Podcast: White Friday 1916 – History’s Deadliest Avalanche occurred during WWI

The Deadliest Avalanche in history occurred at the worst possible time in the worst possible place.  A powerful avalanche killed hundreds of Austrian and Italian soldiers near Italy’s Mount Marmolada on 13 December 1916 in the middle of World War I. Over the next several weeks, more avalanches in the Alps killed an estimated 10,000 Austrian and Italian soldiers fighting Nature as well as each other.  Some claim the avalanches were purposefully triggered the armies against their enemies, but we’ll never know for sure.

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