Inside the high-tech race to prevent avalanches — and why the window to survive one is so brutally narrow
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Source: New York Post
Published: 2026-03-09 03:19 UTC+10:00
Section: General
Factuality Score: 90
Opinion Category: Neutral
Topics: Technology & AI, Environment & Climate
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By any measure, Americans are flooding into avalanche country at a staggering rate. Some estimates suggest a hundred times more people are venturing into the backcountry now than 25 years ago. And yet the number of people dying in avalanches has held roughly constant, at around 26 per year in the United States.
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