 Poster: A snowHead
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I always give my number to you lot when you're coming over so we can try and meet for a beer.
Imagine my surprise when I'm sat at my desk doing the accounts when I get a call from a  asking me to call him a helicopter.
I'm not going to reveal who it is, they might one day. And I hope that it all works out OK for them.
The Back of Mont Fort is no place to be if you don't know how to call in SAR.
My 24hour concierge service usually involves taxis and restaurant reservations. This was more excitement.
No details on the accident (yet) injured snowboarder / skier. Chopper on dispatch.
Good luck.
Scan to the end for another great story...
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Mon 7-04-08 19:12; edited 1 time in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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parlor, fingers crossed
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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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| parlor wrote: |
I always give my number to you lot when you're coming over so we can try and meet for a beer.
Imagine my surprise when I'm sat at my desk doing the accounts when I get a call from a asking me to call him a helicopter.
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Perhaps they were running late for a dinner party.
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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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It wasn't my old friend Arnie Wilson, was it? [Sorry, Arnie]
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Wow, the power of Snowheads 
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best of luck to him or her. Bad news to hear of a sH down.
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parlor, back side of MF no place to be without a guide unless you know what you are doing, which by inference this does not. A bit worrying. Handy to know you offer this concierge service though. We were running low on beer at the weekend and if I'd known I'd have called you instead of sending the wife to Migros
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parlor, nice one , but incidently, for those of us that don't have your number (and don't come to Verbier) what should we do in the event that we find ourselves in an emergency like that? What is the recommended course of action - 112?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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*UPDATE*
When I took the call the worried snowhead was trying to get me to call for the chopper. I gave him the SAR number and made the call two minutes after. SAR confirmed that they had him on the other line so I left them to it.
Just spoken to those involved. No one was injured. They needed the chopper after climbing for a colouir on skiers left of the North Face on Mont Fort. When they got to the top they effectively trapped themselves, unable to climb down or up and the 60 degree pitch was "unskiable".
I'm meeting them for beers tomorrow, hope to get photos too!
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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parlor, that's why I have a wife, so I need not concern myself with menial tasks and minor details. Most of my shopping is of course in the 'expensive claret' section of Macbirch.
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Ray Zorro, In Switzerland the normal number is 1415 but in the Valais area you dial 144. These numbers are normally always on the lift maps and / or your lift pass.
(112 would work but 144 is direct to the Air Glaciers).
Re-reading this thread I have spotted a school boy typo, the general Swiss Air Glaciers number is 1415 and not 1418 as I originally typed.
When I ski a new resort the first thing I do is find and save the local emergency numbers. A lesson for all.
Edit: Typo.
Last edited by So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much  on Mon 21-01-08 22:30; edited 3 times in total
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You know it makes sense.
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parlor, were they not with a guide?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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parlor, go on. Name and "shame" so we can all have a laugh....now we know that they're okay 
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Poster: A snowHead
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| parlor wrote: |
Ray Zorro, In Switzerland the normal number is 1418 but in the Valais area you dial 144. These numbers are normally always on the lift maps and / or your lift pass.
(112 would work but 144 is direct to the Air Glaciers). |
Im a bit thick when it comes to mobiles abroad - do you have to add anything to the front of these numbers to get em to work?
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brian
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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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| parlor wrote: |
Ray Zorro, In Switzerland the normal number is 1418 but in the Valais area you dial 144. These numbers are normally always on the lift maps and / or your lift pass.
(112 would work but 144 is direct to the Air Glaciers). |
For all of Switzerland the number for ambulances is 144, for REGA and Air Glaciers the numbers are 1414 and 1415 respectively. I don't know who picks up if you dial 1418 but it's not a listed emergency number by Swisscom.
Alternately 112 is the number for the emergency services switchboard, 112 is also the GSM emergency number and a standard across Europe for fixed and mobile networks.
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What sort of tab will they be picking up for this (mis)adventure?
Verbier emergency helicopter tarrif would be of interest - there but for the grace of God go us.
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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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| JDC wrote: |
| parlor wrote: |
Ray Zorro, In Switzerland the normal number is 1418 but in the Valais area you dial 144. These numbers are normally always on the lift maps and / or your lift pass.
(112 would work but 144 is direct to the Air Glaciers). |
Im a bit thick when it comes to mobiles abroad - do you have to add anything to the front of these numbers to get em to work? |
No, but the numbers from outside Switzerland are :
REGA +41 333 333 333 ( 14 14 inside CH)
AIR Glaciers +41 27 329 14 15 (14 15 inside CH)
Possibly of use if you roam onto a "foreign" network near the border.
If in doubt just dial 112 no codes, no prefix.
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On your mobile 112 works just about everywhere in the world, except Taiwan. There you get a chinese woman telling you to dial a different number... In chinese 
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Helen Beaumont, well spotted. Have we identified the culprit? There really should be a SH award for this don't you think?
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the tarred and feathered award
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names please!!!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Obviously not wishing to make assumptions, or laugh at other people's misfortunes, and with the knowledge that everyone is safe and uninjured, I do find this statement quite ironic.
I was last in Verbier years ago and I bet so much has changed but I would think it would be relatively easy to find my bearings and find bits
Again apologies in advance if this is barking up the wrong tree
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Let he who has never screwed up in the mountains cast the first stone. Glad they're OK.
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You know it makes sense.
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Verbier's the place I had the scariest ski experience of my life, so I'd very much agree with that. I'd gone up the Mont Gele cablecar with my father in 1967, we were following a regular trail that had no piste marker signs at the time. A blizzard came in and the visibility closed down almost completely. We had no alternative but to follow tracks, and they were being snowed over. We couldn't see more than a few feet and were very lucky to get down.
That's the kind of thing that could potentially catch anyone on an itineraire, or somewhere like La Grave.
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brian
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Helen Beaumont, BGA, very unlikely to be JT. Apart from the more sense angle, he's most unlikely to have had a darksider with him.
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Poster: A snowHead
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good point Brian, also think it's not JT as he was in Zinal yesterday, hopefully speaking to him later.....
Glad everyone is ok!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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David Goldsmith, Very true. Map, compass and emergency GPS can come in handy if you are nav'ing off in bad visibility... but how many of us ever carry them?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| achilles wrote: |
| Let he who has never screwed up in the mountains cast the first stone. Glad they're OK. |
Totally agree, thankfully they are in one piece and able to laugh about it at a later date 
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Scarpa, generally in the car, but guess they wouldn't be much use there
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Helen Beaumont, BGA, very unlikely to be JT. Apart from the more sense angle, he's most unlikely to have had a darksider with him.
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In which case, consider comments withdrawn. And hats off to him for his position on the tray menace.
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FWIW where they were skiing was pretty hardcore. The back side of Mont Fort is not for the week hearted, the North Face takes a very special level of courage, determination and knowledge. I don't know the guy and I've never skied with him but to have been there in the first place gains my respect. I also respect the fact that they made the decision that they had screwed up and needed help before something fatal happened.
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Boris, I have a basic GPS model just for getting a grid ref in a white out. That then locates your position (if you are in doubt) allowing you to use the map and compass to then follow a bearing. Mountaineering GPS units are used differently to the average car model, no substiture for being able to use a map though.
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parlor, It is unfair to have the best thread of 2008 in January
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Scarpa, of course if your hand held GPS had a stern voice - say a Scottish Ski Instructress - who could say "make some short turns here you numpty - now dodge through the trees" it would be even better.
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(PS Concierge service is free with a weeks holiday, or £9,800 per week, whichever is cheaper).
