 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well 11th April today and this sad story is all very quiet. Is there an alpine protocol where the mountain rescue have a walk across the debris every 5 or 6 days?
I remember a case in Scotland probably 25 years ago. A climber had fallen into one of the corries and was buried.
Every week MR would walk the corrie to look for the body. Towards the end of September the mountain rescue realized that early snowfall would make the search impossible and thus leave the body for a second winter.
The police/MR brought in the ground penetrating radar, similar to that used in the search for Fred Wests victims.
The climbers body was located almost immediately.
I don't envy the gang who eventually find this poor person.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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In the Verbier Vallon d'Arbi case, a local instructor told us that they brought in a piste basher because the bodies were buried so deep (six metres). The basher skimmed off some snow, and then they went over the area with long search poles. And so on until the basher had skimmed off enough for the poles to find the bodies. I must say the rescue people deserve a medal for doing all this on top of a steep avalanche zone, with danger of further falls all the time.
To give an idea of the steepness - we've walked this exact route in the summer, which is a track connecting the lower and upper pastures on that side of the valley. We were walking down from the Col des Mines and at this point my wife was almost crushed by a falling cow. It was in the high meadows above the track and lost its footing and slipped. It rolled down the hill at least 100 metres and she just about got out of the way before it crashed onto the track and stopped. Astonishingly it stood up, looked unhurt, but seemed pretty shocked (who wouldn't?). La vache qui roule.
The other danger in this valley is that there's a very deep cleft down the upper part which is hard to see even in summer, let alone winter. If you skied into that from the exit below Lac de Vaux you could suffocate or be seriously injured. Really, I'd always recommend having a Guide, official or otherwise, who skied the valley before.
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@Rogerdodger, We skied down there last Thursday, there's been no sign of any activity on the avalanche debris for the last few weeks.
I guess there's going to be a long wait for the family of the remaining victim.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Over the years e have had Avi victims in Arlberg buried so deep never found during main winter and only discovered by hikers ,farmers in the summer 
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