Comments on: Avalanche Burial and Rescue Video http://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/05/avalanche-burial-and-rescue-video/ The Neat Side of the Web Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:41:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joy http://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/05/avalanche-burial-and-rescue-video/comment-page-1/#comment-1866826 Joy Tue, 06 Oct 2009 05:04:41 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/?p=26676#comment-1866826 I could barely breathe the whole time he was buried. I'm not Claustrophobic usually. Thank heaven for his beacon. I could barely breathe the whole time he was buried. I’m not Claustrophobic usually. Thank heaven for his beacon.

]]> By: mu http://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/05/avalanche-burial-and-rescue-video/comment-page-1/#comment-1866645 mu Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:46:19 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/?p=26676#comment-1866645 Church, If you're in avalanche territory, you carry a shovel, probe, and beacon just like you wear a seat belt in a car. A slide is unpredictable even with proper training and precautions. And, no, they're not repurposed entrenchment tools, they're collapsable avalanche shovels that are designed for this sort of thing (compact, hollow handle for the avalanche probes, fits perfectly in your pack's straps). So yes, an avalanche is a known possibility in these areas and conditions, what's the big deal? Church,

If you’re in avalanche territory, you carry a shovel, probe, and beacon just like you wear a seat belt in a car. A slide is unpredictable even with proper training and precautions. And, no, they’re not repurposed entrenchment tools, they’re collapsable avalanche shovels that are designed for this sort of thing (compact, hollow handle for the avalanche probes, fits perfectly in your pack’s straps).

So yes, an avalanche is a known possibility in these areas and conditions, what’s the big deal?

]]> By: Church http://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/05/avalanche-burial-and-rescue-video/comment-page-1/#comment-1866622 Church Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:38:18 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/?p=26676#comment-1866622 The most surprising thing to me was that they apparently all carry shovels (likely repurposed entrenchment tools.) So this kind of thing is considered a possibility. While they do it. The most surprising thing to me was that they apparently all carry shovels (likely repurposed entrenchment tools.) So this kind of thing is considered a possibility. While they do it.

]]> By: Alejo Hausner http://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/05/avalanche-burial-and-rescue-video/comment-page-1/#comment-1866620 Alejo Hausner Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:27:29 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/?p=26676#comment-1866620 You could have submitted this to the Darwin awards (people whose foolishness leads to their removal from the gene pool). But that wouldn't have been appropriate: this guy was clearly athletic, a good physical specimen from the darwinian point of view. I think what you see here is that people at the top of their physical ability are the biggest risk takers. The very thing that makes you attractive to the opposite sex is what can get you killed. Alejo You could have submitted this to the Darwin awards (people whose foolishness leads to their removal from the gene pool). But that wouldn’t have been appropriate: this guy was clearly athletic, a good physical specimen from the darwinian point of view. I think what you see here is that people at the top of their physical ability are the biggest risk takers. The very thing that makes you attractive to the opposite sex is what can get you killed.

Alejo

]]> By: Edward http://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/05/avalanche-burial-and-rescue-video/comment-page-1/#comment-1866581 Edward Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:55:15 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/?p=26676#comment-1866581 Is it wrong of me to laugh at how he sounded though the snow-muffled microphone? Is it wrong of me to laugh at how he sounded though the snow-muffled microphone?

]]> By: pyroger101 http://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/05/avalanche-burial-and-rescue-video/comment-page-1/#comment-1866564 pyroger101 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:48:39 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/?p=26676#comment-1866564 not for the claustrophobic! Lucky man! not for the claustrophobic! Lucky man!

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