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Austrian Man Survives 10 Hour Avalanche Burial

An Austrian man survived being buried under a massive avalanche in Gschnitztal, Tyrol, Austria for ten hours on Sunday. His companion, a 27-year-old German man, tragically died at the scene. A rescue team was remarkably able to dig out the 23-year-old Austrian alive and conscious after he had been buried under 5 feet of snow. He is making a strong recovery.The two men were reported missing around 6:45pm, hours after they failed to return home for lunch. A helicopter search team spotted the fresh avalanche in the Sandesalm area, at an altitude of around 6,200 feet. The avalanche covered an area around 1,300 feet long and […]
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Italian Alps Backcountry Conditions Report: 50cms Fresh Snow on Passo della Stelvio

After a start to the autumn characterized by unusual warmth, with low snowfall across Alpine ski mountains, the first real precipitation dropped 50cm of snow, mainly in South Tyrol, in the Ortler Alps in Alto Adige (Italy) last week. The winter scenery and the good whether conditions have prompted me to take a tour in the area of Madaccio glacier. The climb, at sunrise from Passo dello Stelvio to Punta degli Spiriti, then down for the long slope to glacier of Madaccio, dominated by Tuckettspitze, skiing on the first powder […]
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