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Wow, it really is looking rocky at the moment. Poor man.
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snowball, the photo the SCGB have used is of somewhere the other side of the mountain. It shows the path down from the Col de Gentianes to Cabane du Mont Fort.
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Very sad ... but when I'm in my 70s ... respect to the man for being there.
.. but surely that isn't Tortin in the pic ????
Gstaad has had 2 deaths to date this season ... younger folks by far.
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Was he with a Ski Club rep?
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davidof, 
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It's a sad coincidence that another skier in their 70's was killed on Saturday in Nendaz VS. According to Valais newspaper Le Nouvelliste, he slid for 250 metres, hit his head on a rock and died at the scene.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Helmet?
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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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At least they died doing something they loved.
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Definitely not Tortin in the photo.
He wasn't skiing with the rep that day. By some strange co-incidence I had dinner with the rep that evening. He had seen them giving the guy CPR on the slope before the chopper came in. It was the third day in a row that we had seen choppers scooping people up off Tortin...
By all accounts it appears that the poor chap had a heart attack and was not involved in any accident.
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You know it makes sense.
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Thanks parlor, I wondered, given his age, if something else might have been involved. That said I think there have been a couple of head meets rock fatalities on Tortin in recent years. One does wonder why the SCGB writes these articles without all the info, it's not as if their members expect them to be first with breaking news
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Poster: A snowHead
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| parlor wrote: |
| By all accounts it appears that the poor chap had a heart attack and was not involved in any accident. |
Sorry, I should make this clearer. It may have been the head injury that killed him but we think he had a heart attack first that made him fall.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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RachelQ, Absolutely - 'do not go gentle into that good night' and all that - terrible shock for the family and friends though - condolences to them. Also, to be fair, the life expectancy of a 70 year old is another 15 years or so so maybe its octagenarians we should envy pegging out on the slopes.
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parlor, Tortin in tough nick at present, big icy moguls - the old boy probably died of fright 
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Not a great couple of weeks for Verbier
http://www.skiclub.co.uk/skiclub/news/story.asp?intStoryID=5464
Just spoken to my OH who is out at the moment, she saw someone choppered off Mont Gele today who didn't look in a good way, and apparently someone was ambulanced out of the Farinet apres ski as well last night.
Hopefully normal service will be resumed soon 
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Wow,
That is pretty frightening - we skied Tortin & Mont Fort last week - kids had helmets but not the wife and I - don't want to open that debate again, but certainly makes me think.
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Fairly sure that we saw this guy from the Chassoure lift as we passed over. The medics had dug out a platform around him and were clearly in a serious situation.
Very sad news indeed, however I stand by my comments on the Verbier Snow Reports thread for last week: the snow on Tortin was chalky compacted powder, not icy. The moguls were not big, and if you arrive-and-go (and do not go on the traverse to skier's right) there were no rocks to contend with (which there are loads of from that traverse).
Tortin needs respect, but not fear.
My profound condolences to his family and friends.
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the life expectancy of a 70 year old is another 15 years or so so maybe its octagenarians we should envy pegging out on the slopes.
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most definitely. I would be delighted to peg out on a slope, but not yet. One of my neighbours, who had been an Olympic dinghy helmsman in his time, a lovely man, died in his late '70s having had a heart attack whilst out with a friend, inspecting moorings. He was sitting on the stern and fell in the water. It was the way he'd have wanted, but not much fun for his almost equally elderly companion who had to rope him up and tow him into the quay, then telephone the man's wife. Still, better for all concerned than a long lonely journey through dementia.
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pam w, just substitute another activity (golf) and this is exactly what happened to my father. Horrible shock at the time, but exactly the way he would have wanted to die.
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....and substitute another: Grouse Shooting....a chap I met once some years ago died a couple of years ago in his 80's out on the moors.
His sons were there and after much thought they decided to carry on with the day as it was their father would have wanted.
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pam w, Blimey... this is getting a morbid thread... Let's hope we all keep both hands firmly on the old mortal coil for a few more winters yet 
Re Tortin... I'm an expert - having skied it once  On that occasion is was flat as a pancake with a foot of fluffy powder on it and seemed easy. But a guy behind me fell, lost a ski, and to my amazement he completed the rest of the run, 100 yards or more, on his back, picking up quite some speed, so I would have thought a fall in current conditions (reported to me as big icy moguls, but that sounds like it's an exaggeration) would be serious if the same thing happended and the much-discussed noggin-protector would be worth having just in case the helterskelter ride got a bit too exciting.
As for the Farinet... I imagine that was a reveler falling from a table made treacherous by having 43 litres of beer, blood, vomit & semen spilt over it in the proceeding 15 minutes 
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bh1,  hee hee... that gets me everytime....
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You know it makes sense.
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vomit & semen spilt over it
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I'm not sure what you get up to in the Farinet, but tell me when you are planning to be in there so I can be elsewhere 
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BGA, Saturday 1st to Tuesday 4th March. I'll also be bouncing down Tortin like the punter I am so you'll probably want to give that a miss too  . And give the King's Parc a wide bearth, and that caff with the beetle in, and Dannys around 4.00
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Poster: A snowHead
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red 27, so noted. Worringly that's all the places I go to. I shall look out for a trail of beer, blood, vomit and semen and avoid accordingly. Just spoken to OH, apparently it looks like it's about to snow so you may be in luck. She said the conditions on Tortin and MF are a bit ropey at the moment though
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red 27, can you send me a message when you're finished with my tab at Kings I want to try and get it in my accounts for March. Thanks.
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Oh Christ-on-a-bike.... Verbier is utterly ghastly in season...
January, powder and peace, March bedlam! I'll do a report when I've got more time, but it's made me question the sense of coming to big resorts in peak time
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Did you ski yet, or is it just the CHF 100 steak (and I'm guessing a CHF 200 wine selection) that's proving unpalatable?
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Rope-ducking seems to be a Verbier speciality. I recall seeing an official instructor taking a class into a closed area near Lac des Vaux some years ago, literally lifting the rope for the class.
I imagine it voids any insurance if there's a mishap.
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David Goldsmith... maybe... I guess I agree, but for anyone who climbs or skis in Alpine situations 'open' and 'closed' are other peoples assessments to be taken on board as part of ones own (hopefully) expereienced judgement of conditions and risk... there are no guarantees.... open does NOT mean safe!
If you mean you get more reckless skiers in Verbier than elsewhere I'm not widely travelled enough to comment.
interesting area for debate/discussion...
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Tortin was rather nice yeserday,
fortunatly no "Great ski club of Britian" punters to be seen
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Assuming I'm alive of course 
