The peace-loving citizens of the Lahual Valley of India are very protective of the trees in their region, considering them to be their protecting guardians, shielding them against pne of mother nature's greatest rages of fury-the fatal avalanches. a painful memory is etched into the minds of every member of the village, this being the memory of the avalanche that utterly destroyed the villages in the Lahual Valley on March 6, 1979, claiming the lives of approximately 254 villagers in the region. A period of intense snowstorms were believed to have triggered the avalanches, which buried the valley under almost 6 meters of snow. Though extremely powerful, avalanches can even raze down large forests, but the trees still definitely play an important role in stabilizing snow packs and halting small avalanches.
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