 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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A few years ago in Courcheval 1850 I watched some chair-lift rescue training. Just outside the top station of the bubble lift between 1300 and 1850 there are (were?) two or three pylons with fixed steel ropes and a couple of chairs. A group of about 15 people were using ropes, pulleys, harnesses etc to slide from top of pylon to chair; lower a person from chair to ground; and then sit in the chair to be rescued by the next 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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They're not dangling that high - I wonder what the height limit for absailing people out of the cabins is?
....Alan won't be happy about you publicising Grimentz again 
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Ian Hopkinson,
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Alan won't be happy about you publicising Grimentz again
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Perhaps he could explain why, when he next drops by. BTW I'm not publicising the village, Top-News have that honour, this week.
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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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| Ian Hopkinson wrote: |
| They're not dangling that high - I wonder what the height limit for absailing people out of the cabins is? |
I'm not sure, Ian, but it's lower than the recommended height for parachuting/base-jumping out of gondola cabins.
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David, whilst your proposed "2nd method" would be exciting, I'd have thought the second method would be to run some sort of temporary car along the cables - the Obergurgl - Hochgurgl gondola has some really high stretches and it looked to me like they had facilities for loading flatbed trolleys onto the cable at the pylons at either end of the big drop.
snowbunny, I think Alan likes to see Grimentz as his own
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Ian Hopkinson, the height limit is how long their abseil rope is, typically this is between 50M and 100M so quite a drop, I've also seen a technique here in Wengen where a helicopter with a large net enclosed platform is used to take people off of teh cable car but I don't think it would work with smaller gondolas or chairlifts due to the downdraught from the rotor blades
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I'd like to see them do that from the Vanoisse express 
That's definitely a candidate for the base jump method - I wonder how many chutes they keep on board in case?
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You know things are bad when they're abseiling people off a T-bar.
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| Ian Hopkinson wrote: |
They're not dangling that high - I wonder what the height limit for absailing people out of the cabins is?
....Alan won't be happy about you publicising Grimentz again |
How long is a bit of string!
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