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National Geographic : 1962 Jun
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Doom overhangs the peaceful farms and villages of Callej6n de Huailas corridor of greenery-in the "Switzerland of Peru." When disaster struck, ice and snow fell away from the tongue of the glacier, here licking the head of a gorge beneath the north summit of Huascaran (center of oppo site page). The avalanche scoured the zigzagging canyon, crushed Indian villages, and rolled across the fertile bottomland and its towns. Compare "before" picture at left with "after" photograph on pages 858-9. Serenity blessed the valley before the catastrophe. Here, near Huards, a woman spins wool while tending flocks. AYRES © NATIONALGEOGRAPHICSOCIETY roar "like that of ten thousand wild beasts," as one man de scribed it."Like an earthquake," said another. "I could feel the rumble in the walls of the belly." Mountain climber Lamberto Guzman Tapia heard the noise and knew at once what it was. He had just arrived at his aunt's house. Inside some forty guests clapped and sang the happy Peruvian songs called huaynos. "Alud!" he shouted. "Ava lanche!" No one could hear him. They only laughed and clapped all the harder. With
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