noon today was a fatal avalanche accident occurred on a mountain saddle. Regular readers of this blog know this mountain as a monitoring station the IMGI and therefore often cited as a source. For many sports fans but he is above all the first mountain tour of the season: easily accessible, often snow-reliable and easy to commit. It is really inconceivable that there lacks an avalanche.
was in this case, the hair dryer at least to blame for the tragedy. In yesterday's second blog post I mentioned the hair dryer of 108 km / h top was not far away at Kofel effective. The Saddle Mountain has for today and yesterday, gusts up to 23.9 m / s (86 mph) or 22.1 m / s (80 km / h). Thus, the bit of snow was blown away, that was pretty pleased. At the top of the mountain are therefore practically only remnants of snow, while in contrast Luv has transported over the snow down on the hitherto poorly verbundenn snowdrift.
mention was this in today's avalanche report of the Avalanche Warning Service Tirol:
strong, sometimes violent wind from the south yesterday led to the formation of extensive snowdrift. Impressively, this could be seen yesterday in increasingly large parts of the Tyrol, in the southern parts of the country in the form of large snowdrift. Cold, loose snow was thus covered by fresh snow drift. The connection between the newly fallen snow with the snow drift is due to the cold temperatures do not usually good, according to the susceptibility high. High overshadowing other activities can be found on the ground a floating layer of snow that comes in addition as a possible surface for slab avalanches in question. (LWD 28/11/2010)
The saddle mountain is dangerous in itself but a mountain that is very busy especially at the beginning of the season. Because it was a ski area until a few years, most of the tour is to climb along traces of the old runway. Still has unfortunately shown that the peak region is not without its dangers.
The picture from a helicopter shows the peak region with the cross on the summit and the weather station in the background, to the north one sees the sharp trailing edge of the slab, the tourers has collected. According to newspaper reports, a found from the snow outstanding ski pole, and only then began the search. The victim was traveling alone. Due to the security level of this ski tour is not unusual.
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| Saddle Mountain (2110 m) and seekers (c) tt.com |
I want this entry to instruct anyone and let me no Rating: avalanche accidents are always tragic and often the result of a concatenation of several circumstances. The article should rather point out that even with a seemingly secure tours of the death constant companion.
My sympathies to the families and the family.
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