Free fall becomes dangerous when the risks are not recognized or warnings taken seriously, and not kokeneinkin bills are immortal, write to the newspaper foreign editor James Isoniemi.
I Watched sometime in the mid-90s VHS cassette snowboard movie with Norwegian Terje Håkonsen did what he wanted and the other what they could. Together in between movie acting interrupted Craig Kelly .
He didn’t do tricks, but spoke directly to the camera. At that time, the smaller the species the first real super star of the enlightenment avalanche risk in the back terrain and sought to tell you how to minimise the risk.
Kelly was the fourth world championship after understand that the main thing not a victory but a free fall. The american was one of his kind, the pioneers, who often spoke of its dangers. And not for nothing.
on January 20. day in 2003, Kelly was involved in the 19-person company, which climbed up the mountain slope Durrandin glacier in Canada intentions to put it down. Downhill since never reached.
an avalanche of warning signs Kitzbühelissä in Austria. EPA / AOP
the majority of the groups were already in practice at the top, when suddenly the whole slope collapsed and sucked according to 13 people.
Six survived an avalanche, which was shocking 47 000 cubic meters of packed snow. At its deepest detachment of the tiles was more than 2.5 meters.
the Slope was the one involved in the calculator according to a total of 300 years in front of the mountain experience. One of them is either not seen the hazard or opened his mouth.
I have 35 years of experience in back country terrain, but none in snow mass is referred to as minimal avalanche danger, survivor geophysicist John Seibert comments recently about the CBC channel in an interview.
All seven victims suffocated by the snow mass.
Kelly, 36, the body was dug up about three meters deep. His death was a snowboarding circles similar to shock, as, say, Ayrton Senna death was the formula one fans in 1994.
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If Norway Wednesday the tragedy of the situation is that four people are buried in an avalanche and perished, it is relatively rare but not in a way free of the event.
for Example, in the Swiss alps is the country’s avalanche and snow research institute SLF:according to 20 within a year occurred nine avalanches, which have killed at least four people. These floods two happened free bills.
SLF’s statistics also shows that 54% of fatal avalanche of the event risk level three. Few people is so crazy, that dares slope 4 – or 5-level risk. The danger was tamokdalenin in on Wednesday, just level three.
This is the fact that every species love to free bills should always keep in the back of the head.
Preparation, equipment and preparedness are the basic prerequisites. True wisdom is born out of fear. The end is then, as in Kelly’s example shows, luck.
