 Poster: A snowHead
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I have been informed today that there was an avalanche on Aiguille Grive this afternoon, directly above the top of Grizzly chairlift. This slide was apparently triggered by skiers/boarders and may have resulted in loss of life. Does anyone have more definite information about this possible tragedy?
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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 British female snowboarder killed, no beacon. I will ask someone to post details to PH later.
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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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Davidof, this confirms the information I have received from two different sources - one, a pisteur, who heard it on his radio; the other, a chairlift employee, who told me that 2 people were killed (out of a group of three). It took a while to find one of them, because they were not carrying ARVA's . You can clearly see the remains of the avalanche coming directly down, above Grizzly lift.
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You can see the avelanche debris if you pan right on the GRIZZLY WEBCAM Quite close to the lift and the pistes down to 1800. Very sad. What was the avalanche risk today?
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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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Warmer today. Coincidentally just this morning the Villaroger mayor had lifted a ban on skiing off piste in the Villaroger sector of the Aiguille Rouge, the feeling being that the worst of the danger had passed. The ban was imposed because of the number of lives lost in the Lanchettes couloir, in particular after heavy falls of snow.
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Martin Nicholas,
Incredible
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PGHM contact said that it was a big slide, starting high up on the Aiguille Grive and that the boarder was carried for some distance, ending up 100 metres or so above the top of the Plan Bois chair.
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One of my managers saw it happen, 3 boarders took the same track accross and it slid. Nasty
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very sad..... but you have to wonder why you'd venture off piste without a transceiver???? 
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