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  Avalanches
An avalanche then swept them to their deaths in a gorge 150 feet below the tracks.
When tons of ice and snow slid down Huascaran Peak in the Andes Mountains, nearly 4,000 people were killed.
Some 30 years later, it is still considered the world's worst avalanche.
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 New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock FA-FL
The LP's are entitled Biela Planeta ("The White Planet"), Dunajska Legenda, Huascaran, Generation, and, Piesen Z Hol ("Songs From Ridges").
Huascaran was supposedly inspired by the 1970 tragedy in Peru when an earthquake-triggered avalanche from the Huascaran mountain killed nearly 80,000 people.
However, unlike Iceberg whom Fermata have sometimes been compared to, the symphonic or ethnic flavours are much less prominent on Huascaran than on the Iceberg albums I have heard.
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