{"id":85261,"date":"2026-02-20T08:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T08:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85261"},"modified":"2026-02-20T08:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T08:56:10","slug":"more-than-90-deaths-this-season-are-we-seeing-more-avalanches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/20\/more-than-90-deaths-this-season-are-we-seeing-more-avalanches\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 90 deaths this season: Are we seeing more avalanches?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/1920\/cpsprodpb\/f5dc\/live\/d892e0c0-0da7-11f1-b7e1-afb6d0884c18.jpg\" alt=\"A ski rescue team of three departs for the site of Tuesday's deadly avalanche in Nevada County, California on 17 February, through thick snow, with an SUV in the foreground and a church heavily laden with snow ahead of them.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">It is not unusual for avalanches to be in the news in the northern hemisphere at this time of year, the height of the annual ski season.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cn4gjqv7vl3o\"> Read More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>It is not unusual for avalanches to be in the news in the northern hemisphere at this time of year, the height&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Skiing-French-Alps.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85262,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85261\/revisions\/85262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}