Verbier avalanche carries away family

verbier_ski_bum wrote:We skied Mont Gele on the same day, but did the itinerary - going to Lac de Vaux side scares me, even on the itinerary side I am close to fainting during the traverse.

Is that the itinerary down to Tortin - under the gondola? The traverse is evil!

Yep, this is it. The traverse is times more evil if you want to cross over to the other side - this is where people die on Mont-Gele. I don't care how good powder might be there, just don't want to put myself through the ordeal of getting there...

verbier_ski_bum wrote:Yep, this is it. The traverse is times more evil if you want to cross over to the other side - this is where people die on Mont-Gele. I don't care how good powder might be there, just don't want to put myself through the ordeal of getting there...

sounds V sensible to me

The description of this accident doesn't seem to be very accurate. One article mentions "ducking the ropes" and going off-piste. Mont-Gele IS off-piste, there is only a cable car that takes skiers there no ropes that you can duck.