[ayk3]

Wouldn't the tent have been damaged had the avalanche actually caused such severe bodily injuries? From what I remember, the tent only had a knife cut in it, done from the inside.

[convery]

The injuries is from tumbling around in the avalanche, a tent (if nailed down) will just be flattened.

[ayk3]

How would one tumble in the avalanche while in the tent? Is the thought that the group heard the avalanche, came out, and got caught in it?

I should read the paper more carefully. I'm going off what I remember from Dead Mountain by Eichar.

[tsjq]

The article says, perhaps that was a small & solid slab of packed snow that fell on the tent, broke some bones, and slid away.