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by convery 1969 days ago
The injuries is from tumbling around in the avalanche, a tent (if nailed down) will just be flattened.
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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.

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