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A 40-year-old British anaesthetist has been killed after falling 30m from rocks while snowboarding in Val d'Isere. The unnamed man was snowboarding with a friend above Val d’Isere, and went off-piste a few metres from last weekend’s downhill skiing world cup route.
...According to news reports, the man, who was on a conference at the Val d'Isere Congress Centre, took a corridor not used by locals or off-piste guides and fell onto rocks.
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/06/nsnow106.xml
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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It was only a few metres from the telepherique (acute es) de l’Olympique, but it’s a piste that goes nowhere”, said a local witness, who arrived after the accident and saw the victim taken to hospital by helicopter.
Visibility was good and the risk of avalanche medium - on level three.
“This was no avalanche, just an unfortunate fatal wrong turn”, he said.
The accident comes less than a week after British businessman David Monk, 46, was killed after a tobogganing prank went wrong in an Italian ski resort.
Mr Monk, from Ware, Herts, died after he and some friends pulled padding from a ski barrier and used it as a sledge.
They hit the barrier at the bottom of the slope, and Mr Monk died from severe head and chest injuries.
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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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el Hen, That's a bit scary as our Jonpim goes on these jaunts  sad news. It also highlights how we need to take more care even just a few feet from a piste.
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I saw the helicopter pick him up, I was confused as there was nowhere above he could've come from. Guess that explains it.
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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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The helicopter may not have been for him. I understand another group followed his tracks to the top of the cliffe and called in S&R when they realisd they were stuck.
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The helicopter was picking up from below a steep outcrop of rocks. It wasn't from above.
It was out in force yesterday, saw people getting taken off in Tignes as well.
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Scary... was out in Val last week, sad news.
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Isn't Jonpim out there for that conference?
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| boredsurfin wrote: |
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=512730&in_page_id=1811
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Face de la Bellegarde? Isn't that on the road from Geneva to Lyon?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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davidof, It's the Daily Mail, they had a reporter on the first train to Scotland when the Falklands were invaded 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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rob@rar, ....Jonpim, was out, but at Tignes and I deposited him safe & sound to the train at Bourg St. Maurice, via the Petit St. Bernard Hotel after allowing him some exercise in the Les Arcs powder ....
Masque, is right - great care is needed in off-piste route selection and never blindly following tracks in the snow.
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