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VIDEO: Avalanche Rescue – Probing and Shoveling 101

Brought to you by SCARPA Backcountry Week This is the third installment of my highlighting Backcountry Access’ Avalanche Safety videos for SCARPA Backcountry Week. In the first three videos, we looked at single and multiple burial avalanche search and rescue techniques with BCA transceivers. In the next two, we will look at probing and shoveling. There have been 16 recreational […]

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Mike Bartholow | February 11, 2021
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Man Survives 2 hours and 40 minutes Under Avalanche in Val d’Isere, France

An avalanche hit a family of four snowshoeing on the Chemins des Coves track of Val d’Isere, France. The family of four was not wearing transceivers on a level 4 of 5 danger day when a 200m long by 100m wide avalanche hit them. The mother and two teenagers were hit but not buried while the father was buried under […]

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Dominic Gawel | January 29, 2021
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