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12 years of experience from rescue missions for totally buried avalanche victims
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

Research has recently been published on the major factors determining the likelihood of surviving total burial in an avalanche. It found that, whenever rescue by a companion fails, snow burial in an avalanche is associated with extraordinarily high mortality. The probability of survival was highest when the victims were found visually and lowest when found by avalanche transceiver. Survival did not significantly differ between those found by rescue dogs and those located with avalanche probes. Short duration of burial and off-piste terrain were two independent predictors of survival.
...Information was gathered from avalanche rescue missions carried out by the Austrian Mountain Rescue Service (Tyrol) during a 12-year period. In all, 109 people who were totally buried (56 off-piste, 53 backcountry) were rescued or recovered; 18.3% survived to hospital discharge. Most (61.6%) of the rescue missions were conducted under considerably dangerous avalanche conditions.

Abstact: http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/ham.2007.1061
Citation: Hohlrieder M et al. High Altitude Medicine & Biology 2008; 9(3): 229-233. doi:10.1089/ham.2007.1061.
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

very sobering.
wear a transciever, ski with a friend but pray not to get buried.....
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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?

The best cure is prevention.
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