The Lewes avalanche
The Lewes avalanche occurred on 27 December 1836 in Lewes, East Sussex, when a huge build-up of snow on a chalk cliff overlooking the town collapsed into the settlement 100 metres below, destroying a row of cottages and killing eight people.
Canada loses that many people to avalanches every year... And it's has nothing to do with global warming... It's called spring up here and it happens every year. Smart people don't hang out on the mountains during the spring thaw... Dumb people do and we call them... Darwin Award winners.
On average there are two avalanche fatalities in Scotland annually. The risk isn’t a predictable spring thaw, but the sudden freeze/thaw oscillations which are characteristic of Scottish winter weather.