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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/02/12/british-skier-dies-high-speed-accident-french-resort/
A British tourist has died following an off-piste skiing accident in the French Alps, emergency services confirmed on Sunday.
The man, 50, suffered a cardiac arrest and multiple injuries after a heavy fall in the afternoon, the management of local ski operator Meribel Alpina said.
The accident took place in the Saulire sector in the alpine resort of Meribel, where the world skiing championships are currently underway.
The skier was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, according to local media reports.
A ski station operator reportedly witnessed the accident as it unfolded and described the man as “taking off” into the air before he landed at a “very high speed”.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Good you mention this.
The director of the Aguille du Midi cable car also died in a ski fall over the weekend as well as an American skier in Chamonix. After weeks of anticyclonic weather the snow is very hard and icy in some places and needs care (and good edges).
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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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| After weeks of anticyclonic weather the snow is very hard and icy in some places and needs care (and good edges). |
That is certainly the case here in StA. Some pistes, after the corduroy has been scraped off, are slick & hard. I have seen many people spearing off in random directions after losing control; fortunately none that I saw resulted in collisions.
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@ulmerhutte, what I found yesterday. Generally it wasn't bad on piste but in some areas the snow had been scraped down to ice by the passage of skiers. Off piste was a mixed bag too.
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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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| davidof wrote: |
Good you mention this.
The director of the Aguille du Midi cable car also died in a ski fall over the weekend as well as an American skier in Chamonix. After weeks of anticyclonic weather the snow is very hard and icy in some places and needs care (and good edges). |
We watched the drama of the rescue/recovery unfold from the Patrol base at work. None of understand why you would be on a South facing slope in no fall terrain after 3pm (it was nearly 4) in the afternoon!
Off the back of Mont Jolly/ Aiguilles Crochues towards cote 2000. (Came from the drag lift at Les Contamines, not ski touring as reported in the papers)
The young American was under the col Cornu Chairlift.
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| davidof wrote: |
Good you mention this.
The director of the Aguille du Midi cable car also died in a ski fall over the weekend as well as an American skier in Chamonix. After weeks of anticyclonic weather the snow is very hard and icy in some places and needs care (and good edges). |
My ribs are confirmation of this following a stack on ice in ADH last week - I needed edges like a samurai sword by Friday
Off piste!!!!!?????......whilst I am not trying to demean the poor man's death as it is tragic, was there actually any decent off piste available??
ADH needs a good half a metre on piste - let alone off.
Meribel can get icy at the best of times
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| davidof wrote: |
Good you mention this.
The director of the Aguille du Midi cable car also died in a ski fall over the weekend as well as an American skier in Chamonix. After weeks of anticyclonic weather the snow is very hard and icy in some places and needs care (and good edges). |
Definitely good to make all aware.
Skiing in Hochgurgl the first week of April last year, most pistes were like concrete. On one chair lift ride we saw three late teens in three separate incidents screw their knees it appeared (single person incidents), falling with their legs trapped under themselves, then screaming.
Our instructor explained that January and February 2022 had been arid with almost relentless high winds, blowing any soft stuff away.
Then on our penultimate day in a literal whiteout I smashed my face up, falling in slow-mo over a mountain of unbashed powder, head first into concrete like ice on piste.
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