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Deadliest ski season in French Alps for at least 35 years

 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead
Avalanches have killed 53 people in the French Alps this season. This makes it the deadliest ski season since 1971, according to ANENA - the French National Association for the Study of Snow and Avalanches...

Most of the victims have been off-piste skiers (6 of them British), but have also included climbers, a ski patroller and a mountain rescuer. According to experts, an increase in off-piste skiing is not the reason for the increase in deaths; rather it’s the irregular weather conditions - the spate of avalanches is the result of fierce winds, very heavy snowfall and unbroken cold. Almost half the fatal avalanches were at resorts in the Savoie region. British skiers and snowboarders have now been warned by the French authorities to keep to the pistes over the coming weeks.

More detail:
http://www.skiracing.com/industry_report/news_displaySRIR.php/3673/
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WEATHER/03/15/france.avalanches.ap/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2088286,00.html
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Yes, we've been talking about the ANENA statistics already today, in this thread..

The precise figures are quoted in this MySnowSports article.
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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?
What's amazing is that lots of people with the right equipment (being a tranceiver, probe and shovel) don't practice and don't know how to use the tranceivers anyway. Also it's not worth having one of those items without the other two - with all 3 items the average time to dig somebody out of 1m of snow is 11 minutes. With only one item that time rises to over an hour!!! Hopefully all snowheads realise that off-piste is out of bounds during high avalanche risk and anyone who does go off-piste is putting the rescue services as well as themselves in serious danger.
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