![](templates/subSilver/images/full_size.gif) Poster: A snowHead
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Hi all,
Just to let you know about a short video which I have produced in association with IFMGA Mountain Guide Andy Perkins.
This is a short film highlighting some of the basic steps we can take to stay safe while skiing/boarding on glaciers and was produced for the Compagnie du Mont Blanc who will be showing it on the screens at Aiguille du Midi,Grands Montets throughout the winter.
This is NOT an instructional video but merely shows some of the steps we can take to minimise the risks in this environment.
The video can be viewed here:
http://vimeo.com/channels/offpisteskiing
PS This is a 'silent' edit, full surround sound audio extravaganza to follow in due course...
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![](templates/subSilver/images/full_size.gif) Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I could do without the sound track - but it's a very good video - as I would expect from anything to do with Andy Perkins - one of the guides on a SCGB holiday I was on some years back.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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offpisteskiing, Enjoyed that - thanks a lot! Learned a few things as well..
Cheers
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Nice work. Funny how a lot of the stuff mentioned in that seems like pure common sense once you've a bit of understanding of how these things work. Yet i guess that's the kicker understanding how it works.
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![](templates/subSilver/images/full_size.gif) Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Hey frank4short, yes it is all common sense I guess, but amazing how many people leave it at home...! (As I'm sure you know)
Over 2 days of filming this we had:
- early Jan - on a not particularly filled in VB, loads of folks going by without so much as a pack on - no harness, no crevasse rescue kit, not even any sandwiches by the look of things...
- late-April several parties of alpinists (who should know better) wandering unroped over a rapidly-softening snowbridge beside the hole we were filming the crevasse fall/rescue in (this was not long after the Ruby accident as well..) ...
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offpisteskiing, MIssed this first time round, thanks for the bump. Will watch it tonight
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