excellent avalanche article worth reading

Goto http//www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/

Fixed the link - Adders

Yes, excellent and in-depth - and a superb example of multimedia journalism that apparently took 6 months to pull together.

Well worth a read whether you leave the piste or not.

Here's a link to the start of the article :-

www.nytimes.com

Harrowing. If it could happen to these people it could happen to any of us. I guess the recurring theme throughout this excellent piece is 'peer pressure'. It seems quite a few of the survivors did have reservations about about the area, the conditions and the size of the group but the macho culture won out. Interesting too how the (relatively) timid female member of the group was the only one with the strength of character to ski out. Food for thought for many of us.

That is a rather chilling story. Of course in hind site we can all see the errors made but I know from experience the siren calls of deep powder can easily cloud judgement.

extremely chilling!