As Humar set off, a huge avalanche swept down the middle of the face.

Everest ER posted on Facebook: A huge avalanche off Pumori covered many tents in base camp.

Foreign climbers and their Nepalese guides around Mount Everest were caught by the tremors and a huge avalanche.

The earthquake in Nepal triggered a huge avalanche on the mountain that killed at least 17 climbers and guides.

When he got there he saw that a huge avalanche had come down and he knew Gunther was buried beneath it.

Rescuers are desperately searching for 30 people believed to be in a mountain resort hit by a huge avalanche in central Italy.

Several hundred yards away, up at the top of the big glacier, a huge avalanche cloud burst from the head of the serac.

I walked away from the base, and minutes later a huge avalanche swept the route and avalanche cone where I had just been standing.

It was a huge avalanche and it took a long time to dig everyone out, and this man was the last to be found.

The public prosecutor's office in nearby Pescara opened an investigation within 24 hours of the Hotel Rigopiano, near Farindola being destroyed by a huge avalanche.

Her "elation" was short-lived as the one abusive tweet soon became a " huge avalanche" and included vicious threats of rape and other violence.

It triggered a huge avalanche on Mount Everest that killed at least 17 climbers, including foreigners, the worst single disaster on the world's highest peak.

Mount Everest south base camp is seen a day after a huge avalanche caused by an earthquake killed 17 people in Nepal, April 26, 2015.