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Started by Acarr in Ski Chatter - 4 Replies

Re:Avalanche in Austria

Acarr posted Mar-2017

BBC saying 3 killed in an avalanche in Austria. No further details yet.
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Dobby
reply to 'Avalanche in Austria'
posted Mar-2017

Looks huge. Same face slid last year, according to someone on Snowheads.

Acarr
reply to 'Avalanche in Austria'
posted Mar-2017

Here's an update: BBC news
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Admin
reply to 'Avalanche in Austria'
posted Mar-2017

dobby wrote:Looks huge. Same face slid last year, according to someone on Snowheads.

There's video of last year's avalanche in the video in this article :- http://tirol.orf.at/news/stories/2757594/

The size of that is difficult to comprehend and this picture of one of the recovery digs (the victims were under more than 8m of snow) has to be one of the most chilling images I've seen in a while. Credits unknown but reproduced here to remind us all that there is a lot of snow up high, and there will be more avalanches of this size in coming days.

The Admin Man

Dobby
reply to 'Avalanche in Austria'
posted Mar-2017

8 metres?!

Topic last updated on 17-March-2017 at 10:47