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How many times has a man who journalists call the luckiest person in the world survived in disasters?

The journalists of The Daily Telegraph called the Croatian Frane Selak the luckiest person in the world. The first time luck smiled at him in 1964, when the train derailed and fell into the river. 17 people died, but Frane managed to swim ashore. Then such cases happened to Frane: he fell into a haystack from an airplane, during the flight of which the door opened, 19 people died; swam ashore after the bus crashed into the river; got out of a suddenly ignited car a few seconds before the gas tank exploded; escaped with bruises after being hit by a bus; fell by car from a mountain road, having managed to jump out and catch on a tree. Finally, in 2003, Frane bought a lottery ticket for the first time in his life and won £600.

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Why do glaciers still exist today?

A huge mass of ice, from the formation of which the ice age began in North America, was called the "continental glacier": in the very center its thickness reached 4,5 km. It is possible that this glacier formed and melted four times during the entire ice age.

The glacier that covered other parts of the world has not melted in some places! For example, the huge island of Greenland is still covered by continental ice, except for a narrow coastal strip. In its middle part, the glacier sometimes reaches a thickness of more than three kilometers. Antarctica is also covered by a vast continental glacier up to 4 kilometers thick in some places!

So the reason why there are glaciers in some parts of the world is that they have not melted since the Ice Age. But the bulk of the glaciers that are found now, formed recently. They are mainly located in mountain valleys.

They originate in wide, gently sloping, amphitheater-like valleys. Snow falls here from the slopes as a result of landslides and avalanches. Such snow does not melt in the summer, becoming deeper every year. Gradually, pressure from above, some thawing, and repeated freezing remove air from the bottom of this snow mass, turning it into solid ice. The impact of the weight of the entire mass of ice and snow compresses the entire mass and causes it to move down the valley. Such a moving tongue of ice is a mountain glacier.

More than 1200 such glaciers are known in Europe in the Alps! They also exist in the Pyrenees, in the Carpathians, in the Caucasus, as well as in the mountains of southern Asia. There are tens of thousands of these glaciers in southern Alaska, some 50 to 100 km long!

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