Word: weissfluhjoch
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...Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, the world's first and foremost scientific establishment dedicated to the study and forecasting of avalanches. Before the institute was established 26 years ago, high above the resort town of Davos in the eternal snows of the 8,000-ft. Weissfluhjoch, knowledge of avalanches consisted mostly of folklore. Now, thanks to the institute's physicists, crystallographers, engineers and foresters, science has come closer to understanding the mysterious mechanisms that tumble torrents of snow down the mountainsides...
...pistes may be closed, and whole villages may be evacuated on a word from the Weissfluhjoch. Even the Swiss air force checks with the institute before sending its supersonic Mirages aloft during the avalanche season, seeking reassurance that sonic booms will not cause unsuspecting villagers to be engulfed in a deadly white tide...
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