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Thredbo Lanslide 20 yrs on

Hundreds of skiers and snowboarders have marked 20 years since the Thredbo tragedy.

Hundreds of skiers and snowboarders have marked 20 years since the Thredbo tragedy. Source: AAP

On the night of the 30th of July ,exactly 20 years ago , within seconds, one of Australias most popular holiday destinations became one of its worst natural disaster zones.A landslide, had sent tonnes of earth and debris raging rapidly down a slope, dozens beneath its wreckage.Then miraculously, at 5.37am on Saturday, August 2, a human voice emerged from the wreckage.I can hear you, Stuart Diver yelled from a tiny cavity underneath slabs of concrete.



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