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Avalanches - bringing it home - Bernard Fabre
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Poster: A snowHead

I saw the thread asking for a guide recommendation in Alpe d'Huez and pulled off my pin board an old card of a guy called Bernard Fabre, who a friend and I skied with in 2000. That was my first ever guided off-piste.

I was reasonably fit in those days but the guy was unbelievable. He never stopped, a 40 something teetotaller who lived for skiing and the mtns. Except for a picture postcard stop for lunch at a place in the middle of nowhere. He took us off the back of Pic Blanc down the steepest slopes I'd ever skied at the time. A great thrill to just duck under the netting. Winding our way down to a road where we were picked up by a guy doing the best impressioon of a big, jolly French ruralist of all time, to go for our meal. Then it was back in from the Oisan side, up Pic Blanc and cut right out of the The Tunnel. A lot of hard skating later we reached the very far left of the area shown on the piste map, where we skied down the side of a big avalanche trail and at the bottom I got my first ever experience of spring snow. We then joined the ski area again and I had a bad fall on the green (yes, green) coming in to the centre.

Anyway, I looked up his name to see if he had his own website and found out the next year that guy died whilst guiding. The first person I've know personally to have died in an avalanche.

http://pistehors.com/news/ski/comments/guide-killed-by-avalanche-in-lalpe-dhuez/
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a much loved chap, i hear. his wife still runs a rather nice gite in Sardonne.
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