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2. Avalanche rescue - Wikipedia

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   Avalanche Transceivers — known as beacons, "beepers", peeps (pieps), ARVAs (Appareil de Recherche de Victimes en Avalanche, in French), LVS (Lawinen-Verschütteten-Suchgerät, Swiss German), or various other trade names, are important for every member of the party. They emit a "beep" via 457 kHz radio signal in normal use, but may be switched ...

3. I Shouldn't Be Alive - Wikipedia

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   In Montana, five skiers on the slopes of Nemesis Mountain in the state's Centennial Mountains range are ravaged by a massive avalanche on New Year's Day, 2005. Sam suffers a gruesome compound fracture to his leg and Blake (who triggered the avalanche) is killed by blunt-force trauma. The three remaining friends fight to keep Sam alive through a ...

4. Backcountry.com - Wikipedia

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   Backcountry.com was founded in 1996 by Jim Holland and John Bresee.The two started the online business with a sparse collection of avalanche gear and began selling gear from their garage in Park City, Utah under the domain names BCstore.com and BackcountryStore.com. [1] The store's first sale, a Pieps 457 Opti-finder avalanche beacon, happened in February 1997. [2]

5. This Expert Skier Survived Two Avalanches After Hitting the ...

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   Caught in a massive avalanche and buried alive under a blanket of snow, Ken Scott knew death was just a matter of time. The post This Expert Skier Survived Two Avalanches After Hitting the Slopes ...

6. Video shows New Hampshire snowboarder trigger, escape ...

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   SARGENT’S PURCHASE, N.H. – A dramatic video recorded in New Hampshire shows a snowboarder triggering and then escaping a small avalanche on Mount Washington. The video, recorded by Andrew ...

7. Avalanche - Wikipedia

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   5.5 Survival, rescue, and recovery. 6 Notable avalanches. 7 Classification of avalanches. ... An avalanche is a rapid flow of snow down a slope, such as a hill or ...