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Snowborder Dead in Avalanche

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Germany Bavaria Ruhpolding

22 year old dead.

http://www.merkur-online.de/nachrichten/bayern/jahre-alter-snowboarder-stirbt-lawine-85096.html
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22 year old dead

Unfortunately not the first and certainly will not be the last. set an avalanche off myself in Arraba some years ago and was lucky to get out of the side. Be carefull please.
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Sad, but not really news. This season there have been 19 avalanche deaths in France alone, which is about average. Strangely, it's not something the snowsports business is keen to advertise...

Last season, everyone who died in an avalanche in France was wearing a transciever.

I love my pow and it doesn't put me off, but I think it helps to have the facts to hand when accessing the the risk.

Chris
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Last season, everyone who died in an avalanche in France was wearing a transciever


Can anyone (davidof?) confirm if this is true? It's possible I guess, but I would be extremely surprised given that most climbers and mountaineers for instance don't wear transceivers, and I don't think the figure for skiers is anywhere near 100% either...
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It actually came from the pisthehors 'analysis of off-piste and backcountry avalanche accidents for france 2007-2008' though I mis-quoted a bit (from memory) as checking the report it actually says 'one thing to note, amongst the ski-fatalities every one of the victims was wearing a beacon', so there were probably some climbers, etc. who weren't.

I was just trying to make the points that:
- there are a lot more deaths than most people realise.
- wearing a beacon doesn't guarantee safety (though if you've got any sense you'll still always wear one).

http://skirando.com/images/avalanche/analysis-2008.pdf
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