Avalanche Resource Centre

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Miscellaneous Avalanche Documents

• Evidence of heuristic traps in recreational avalanche accidents · PDF 123kb
• Basic Decision Making in Avalanche Terrain · PDF 204kb
• Airbag Systems for Off-Piste · PDF 325kb
• Swiss Avalanches · PDF 1.3mb
• Shovel Test Report - Austria · PDF 650kb
• 2010-11 SAIS Season Report · PDF 1.9mb

Interesting Avalanche Reading

• 3 months suspended sentence for failure to use beacons
  An Austrian ski tourer has received a three month [suspended] prison sentence for the manslaughter of his wife. The case centered around the use of avalanche beacons. According to the Salzburg court he was touring with his supposedly inexperienced wife with their beacons switched off and in their rucksacks.

Avalanche Information in Other Regions

• European Indexwww.avalanches.org
• Austriawww.lawine.at
• Italywww.aineva.it
• Val D’Aostawww.regione.vda.it
• Francewww.data-avalanche.org
• Switzerlandwww.slf.ch
• Scotlandwww.sais.gov.uk