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Skier Rescued After 3 Days Stranded Inside Mountain Hut in French Alps

French skier, Aurelie Dutertre. Photo Credit: RTL radio

Aurélie Dutertre, a 46-year-old French mountaineer was stranded in the Alps for three days and four nights. Dutertre found refuge in a small wooden hut on the Sept Laux mountain in the French Alps after a snowstorm hit while she was alone in the backcountry. Related: Teton County Search & Rescue Conducts 2 Heli Rescues in 1 Day, Including a […]

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Luke Guilford | April 25, 2023
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VIDEO: Brave Deputy has to Break Window to Rescue Bear Trapped in Car near Lake Tahoe

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Thousands of Holidaymakers in French Ski Resort Trapped by Landslide

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A landslide that fell onto the only access road to a ski resort in southern France on Tuesday has left around 2,000 people, many of them holidaymakers, trapped reports thelocal.fr. Monts d’Olmes ski resort in the Occitan district of Ariège is currently unreachable by land, the only access road to the popular ski spot called the Ramier was blocked on […]

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Steven Agar | February 22, 2018
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Friday Fun: “No, No, No! We’re Not Gonna Shoot It. Gimme a Break!” | Elk Tramped on Tramoline…

Ya know those nets around trampolines to keep kids from falling out? Turns out they’re pretty great at keeping elk in. One of the elk is just taunting the stuck guy. Another seems concerned. The rest are just eating away like nothing even happened. The best part of this video is when the guy says: “No, no, […]

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Two Female Mountaineers Trapped on 14,259’ Longs Peak in Colorado in Ice Storm

Two experienced female mountaineers, Connie Yang and Suzanne Turell, from Maine are currently trapped near the summit of 14,259-foot Longs Peak in Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park. They sent cell phone texts between 9:07am and 9:12am Thursday September 12th, 2013 to Connie’s Sister:   Rangers and friends have tried calling the women’s cell phones to no avail. “They are very […]

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