How Rescuers Used Explosives to Recover the California Avalanche Victims

The rescuers of the avalanche that killed nine friends on a ski adventure had a lot of weather challenges in the recovery effort. Still, they were able to find all nine bodies of the women and men who died near Lake Tahoe in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains when they were overcome by a football-field-sized avalanche.

Search and Rescue Efforts

Because of the deteriorating weather conditions, the rescuers waited a few days to search for and recover the bodies of the friends and sisters who were on a ski trip together...