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Avalanche Kills 4 Skiers in Switzerland | 25 Swiss Avy Deaths This Winter

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Four Italian skiers were killed in an avalanche on very popular Great Saint Bernard Pass in Switzerland on Saturday, February 21st, 2015. Two women and two men from Milan, Italy were killed in the avalanche while a fifth skier was injured. All the skiers involved in the avalanche were either 51 or 52 years old. The avalanche occurred at 2,300 meters, was 100 meters wide, ran 300-vertical-meters and buried the skiers up to 2.5 meters deep. 30 rescuers were involved in the […]
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Avalanche Death in Alberta, Canada Over Weekend

Five backcountry skiers touring near the Black Prince area – about 45 km south of Canmore in Peter Lougheed Provincial Park in Kananaskis Country – triggered and were caught in a size 2.5 avalanche on Saturday. One of the skiers was killed by the avalanche. The avalanche danger was rated as considerable at the time of the avalanche. Considerable is the avalanche rating where the most people die. This avalanche killed one of the skiers and injured the other 3. The avalanche was 3-feet deep, 260-feet wide, and 2,000-feet long. […]
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8 People Die in 4 Avalanches 1 Day in Switzerland:

8 People died in 4 separate avalanches in 1 day Switzerland yesterday, Saturday, January 31st, 2015. This brings the total avalanche deaths in Switzerland this winter to 17. In the Alps this winter there have been a staggering 49 avalanches deaths. Fourty-nine people have died in avalanches in the Alps this year and it’s only the start of February. Avalanche danger was rated as “Considerable” (3 out of 5) in all the areas where these deadly avalanches occurred. Details from all these avalanches are still coming in. […]
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Teenage Skier in Group of 18 on School Field Trip Dies in Avalanche in France

Fifteen students, their teacher, an aspiring guide, and a guide were skiing on a school field trip in the Vercors area of France when they triggered an avalanche that carried 3 of them away off the Roc Cornafion (2,049m or 2,722ft) above the town of Villard-de-Lans at about 12:30pm today. The 3 people caught in the avalanche – two students and a guide – were all fully buried. Their ski partners were able to successfully recover two of the buried skiers within 20 minutes but not a 17-year-old student. […]
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6 Skiers Die in French Avalanche | Deadliest Avalanche in France in 8-Years

It is being report that skiers which consisted of four men and two women aged between 58 and 73 were hiking and skiing when they were swept to their deaths by a large avalanche. This incident happened early in the morning on January 25th, 2015 in the Queyras mountain range which is close to the border with Italy. This accident brings the avalanche death total in the Alps to 17 this winter. The Alps average about 30 skier/snowboarder deaths per year. The Alps lost 17 skiers/snowboarders in 2014 season, 21 in 2013, and 22 in 2012. […]
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“American Dave” Rosenbarger Dies in Avalanche in Chamonix

This sucks. Dave was a great guy and fantastic skier that skied for himself, not for the limelight. He’d spent the past 12 winters in Chamonix and the past 12 summers in Lake Tahoe, CA. Dave had skied nearly all the gnarliest lines in Chamonix and many more around the world. He’d recently told me that he’d skied the North Face of the Aiguille du Midi around 70 times. Most wouldn’t have the guts to ski it once. Dave’s Chamonix exploits were recently documented by Powder Magazine in an incredible 12-page article titled Untracked. […]
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7 Dead in Avalanches in Japan Over Weekend:

Japan had a horrible weekend last weekend with 4 people dying in two separate avalanches and 3 mountain climbers going missing. The climbers have been missing for 3 days and it’s widely suspected that they were caught in an avalanche as well. The avalanches occurred in the Niigata and Nagano prefectures (states). These areas of Japan received over 4-feet of snow over the weekend in combination with high winds that sent avalanche conditions into the “High” rankings. Japan is known for deep, mellow powder. […]
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4th Avalanche Death in the USA at Silverton, Colorado

A 23-year-old woman was killed in an avalanche after being swept through trees on Kendall Mountain south of Silverton, Colorado yesterday, January 6th, 2014. She was skiing at around 11,000-feet, one at a time, when she was caught in a small avalanche and carried into a group of trees. The victim was gravely injured most likely from hitting trees on her way down. The rescue operation took many hours and she was unresponsive before being transported toMercy Regional Medical Center. She was declared dead upon arriving at the hospital. […]
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3rd Avalanche Death of 2014/15 for USA Yesterday in Colorado

The USA just experienced its 3rd Avalanche Death of the 2014/15 winter season. The victim was a snowshoer who was killed yesterday at around 12,000-feet in the Grey’s and Torrey’s area of Colorado. Grey’s and Torrey’s are 14,000-foot peaks. The avalanche danger was rated at moderate the day of the avalanche. Two men and a woman were ascending the mountain when an avalanche […]
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2nd Avalanche Fatality of 2014/15 in USA | One Dead in Alaskan Avalanche:

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The USA just suffered its 2nd avalanche fatality of the 2014/15 winter season. Two skiers were caught in an avalanche in Alaska’s Rainbow Mountain off the Richardson Highway on Sunday afternoon. One skier (35-years-old) was killed in the avalanche and the other (63-years-old) was able to dig himself out and survived. “It was reported that (Hopper) had been skiing with a man tentatively identified as (Peterson) when they heard a ‘whoomp’ […]
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LEARN: 1st Avalanche Death of 2014/15 Video Analysis & Report

This past Wednesday, November 26th, 2014, the USA sadly experienced its first avalanche fatality of the 2014/15 winter season. We’d like to make it our last. The best way to learn about avalanches is to learn from avalanche accidents. When we analyze avalanche accidents, we can learn what went wrong and why. Armed with this knowledge, we can potentially avoid avalanche hazards in our own lives moving forward. This video analyzes […]
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Avalanche Death in Montana Yesterday | NOAA “Avalanche Warning” in MT Today:

A snowmobiler died in an avalanche in the Cooke City, Montana area at about 1:30pm yesterday, November 26th, 2014. The exact location was on the southwest side of Henderson Mountain in the Miller Creek drainage. The victim was a 31-year-old from North Dakota. The victim and his partner both were carry avalanche equipment. The victim was buried over 5-deep in the avalanche debris. His partner made an impressive effort and had the victim’s head out of the snow in 20-minutes. CPR was performed on the victim without result. […]
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US Pro Snowboarder Liz Daley Killed in Avalanche in Argentina

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More terrible news is coming out of Patagonia. The same day that JP Auclair and Andreas Fransson died in an avalanche in Chilean Patagonia, professional snowboarder and certified guide Liz Daley from Tacoma, WA died in an avalanche in Argentine Patagonia. This terrible day was Monday, September 29th, 2014. 29-year-old Liz was in the El Chaleten area of Argentina snowboarding with the Eddie Bauer First Ascent crew on the popular backcountry ski mountain, Cerro Vaspignani, […]
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2 Ski Mountaineers Killed in Avalanche on Shisha Pangma

This past Tuesday an avalanche claimed the lives of two Dynafit sponsored athletes who were attempting to climb two 8,000-meter peaks in one week via the “Dynafit Double 8” project. Sebastian Haag and Andrea Zambaldi were hit by an avalanche on Tibet’s Shisha Pangma (8,027m/26,335ft) while climbing at 25,918-feet, only 400-feet below the summit. The avalanche dragged them 2,000-vertical-feet […]
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Avalanche Kills Three Climbers in Kamchatka, Russia

Last Friday, a group of 10 climbers were ascending the north face of the 15,042-foot Kamen (stone) volcano in Kamchatka when an avalanche came down on them. Two of the climbers were killed, one is still missing, and 7 survived the avalanche. Of the survivors, four were injured and three were hospitalized. “According to the surviving tourists from the group of 10 people, on Friday morning they decided to climb the Kamen volcano from […]
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