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Acclaimed director Martin Scorsese will produce a film that plans to revisit the story of the infamous 1982 Alpine Meadows, California, avalanche incident, according to a report from Deadline.
Acclaimed director Martin Scorsese will produce a film that plans to revisit the story of the infamous 1982 Alpine Meadows, California, avalanche incident, according to a report from Deadline. The ...
Martin Scorsese is producing Wall of White, a film about the 1982 avalanche at California's Alpine Meadows ski resort.
An avalanche was reported Thursday at a ski resort near Lake Tahoe, one day after a major avalanche roared down an adjoining mountain, trapping several people and killing a 66-year-old man.
A deadly avalanche at Palisades Tahoe on Wednesday was a reminder of Tahoe's history with avalanches, including one of the most deadly avalanches in March 1982.
Tahoe is no stranger to deadly avalanches. In March of 1982, tons of snow came crashing down the mountain at Alpine Meadows. Seven people lost their lives.
An avalanche was reported Thursday at a resort near Lake Tahoe, one day after a major avalanche roared down an adjoining mountain, trapping several people and killing a 66-year-old man.
After the avalanche, according to the documentary, Plehn developed a state-of-the-art avalanche control program still used at Alpine Meadows and other resorts. But avalanches still plague the resort ...
Alpine Meadows was, and arguably still is, one of the most avalanche-prone ski resorts in the world. It's easy to assume that the 1982 slide happened from pure negligence, but that couldn't have been ...
The after-effects were important, too.” After the avalanche at Alpine Meadows, the search-and-rescue process went on for days, while the storm continued to hammer the mountain.