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17 hours?

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A//www.rp-online.de/panorama/ausland/21-Jaehriger-ueberlebt-17-Stunden-in-Lawine_aid_816893.html&hl=en&langpair=auto|en&tbb=1&ie=ISO-8859-1

Looks to be correct. The local newspaper carries the same story today. Pretty remarkable survival!

Was on yahoo news as well,it seems Switzerland has its fair share of avalanches.

brooksy wrote:
Was on yahoo news as well,it seems Switzerland has its fair share of avalanches.

The conditions this year, mean that across almost all of the alps, vulnerable slopes are avalanche prone. Check Ise's recent post.

If you look at the article underneath that which we were reading, you see a picture of an avalanche warning sign. Then look on page 7 of my "St Anton and Niederau" post, the top picture shows the same sign. Look at the bottom of the picture, towards the left hand side, you will see two dots. These are two of four guys who have skied past the avalanche sign.

seems like switzerland has nice, friendly, forgiving avalanches.

benny12345 wrote:seems like switzerland has nice, friendly, forgiving avalanches.

If that were true, then this would not have occurred, less than 48 hours after we departed the resort.

http://blog.i-g.ch/index.php?post/2010/01/31/L-avalanche%2C-suite

yes, it's nasty. they always are. let's just hope he had the best run ever beforehand and went happy.

benny12345 wrote:yes, it's nasty. they always are. let's just hope he had the best run ever beforehand and went happy.

It's my favourite run in the resort. It's not off piste, it's a secured marked Itinerary, with an Open/Closed board at the entrance. The TV station was claiming it was offpiste, which is scaremongering IMHO.
I have no idea if it was open at the time of the avalanche, but it was certainly open during the previous 2 weeks, as we were in there.

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