Opinion: What does surviving an avalanche teach you?

One of us understands the life-giving as well as the life-threatening realities of glaciers/ice, having been a mountaineer and a survivorIn just eight days of September, Himalayan snow buried 18 people. On the night of September 19, an avalanche fell on a tent at Camp III on Manaslu, killing Dhruva Jyoti Guha, an Indian-origin climber living in Germany, and his guide, Fursemba Sherpa.