John Branch's Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times feature, "Snow Fall: Avalanche at Tunnel Creek" (2013), tells a harrowing story of survival at the tip of Cowboy Mountain in Washington state. As Branch recounts the terrifying details of death by snow suffocation, it seems impossible to shake the blistering shift from calm to catastrophe. Branch's leading protagonist and survivor, professional skier Elyse Saugstad, is noted as having equipped herself with a string-release airbag in her travel ...
John Branch's Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times feature, "Snow Fall: Avalanche at Tunnel Creek" (2013), tells a harrowing story of survival at the tip of Cowboy Mountain in Washington state. As Branch recounts the terrifying details of death by snow suffocation, it seems impossible to shake the blistering shift from calm to catastrophe. Branch's leading protagonist and survivor, professional skier Elyse Saugstad, is noted as having equipped herself with a string-release airbag in her travel ...
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