could this be the answer?
skeptoid.com/episodes/4108
( h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Fri 8 Apr 2011, 16:22, 2 replies)

As one of the comments there asks,
why no soft tissue damage to go with the broken ribs if there was an avalanche?
Anyway, however plausible a theory one might put forward, it's still just going to be guesswork.
( 4Q just lurking, Sat 9 Apr 2011, 0:38, closed)

I don't know that I like an avalanche as a explanation
I agree that it could have happened once in a blue moon, but what sort of avalanche would be powerful enough to carry rocks with skull-crushing force and still leave the tent where it was originally pitched? I really don't buy that. Nor do I buy the "thought there was an avalanche, before being hit by a co-incidental avalanche" theory. Just too unlikely, and it's very clear that the person writing (as well as in the other link) has no understanding of avalanches at all. Small, rounded hills avalanching? It's like claiming the Japanese tsunami could be recreated in a village duckpond.

I'm not for one second saying there's a paranormal explanation (I firmly beleive it was an entirely explicable affair) but I think that anyone who claims it to be easily solvable is lying or deluded.



Edit: For the record, avalanches are most likely at 38 degrees, and almost impossible at 20.
( MatJ LOOK, Sat 9 Apr 2011, 0:41, closed)