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I didn't see the entire episode but I guess it was a replay as it was on lastnight but it was a ski sunday episode about heliskiing and had Ed Leigh and Graham Bell climbing across ropes and off pisting. There were some avalanches during their downhill run, including one set off on a side slope that they didn't notice.
Surely the conditions can't have been great if 2 avalanches were set off during their down run?
Think it was the high altitude - Tyrolean traverse in New Zealand
and the one with Jodie Kidd doing off piste
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Was it a full episode? I think that was the first one, but then I missed half of the others and couldn't get them on iplayer... If so I'll keep an eye out next week...
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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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Im not sure I want to watch more skiing now  as my next mountain fix is either in Scotland or next year.
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I seem to recall that the avalanche was on the completely opposite side of the arette which they were skiing, so in fact goes to prove that knowing the slope, its relative position and aspect, taking into account conditions, weather etc etc etc were actually right on the money.....
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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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Yes, but the fact they were skiing the area is what set the avalanche off I'm sure or perhaps the helicopter in the air 
It was a big slab
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GordonFreeman, No - possibly the helicopter, but not them being there
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I'd have to watch it again but I don't think it was far away from them. They were in a "safe are" where they had all stopped, and the avalanche was set off on the side slope.
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Yeah, but it was the part where Jodie Kidd was skiing with them off piste. All skiing close together, etc.
About 14mins onwards...
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Its called terrain management, route selection. They were skiing down the ridge so which was not windloaded and also a shallow slope.
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My point was that the avalanche risk must have been quite high that day - should they have been out at all?
I guess that part of the ridge is unlikely to go with the slab?
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