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a dangerous turn. if the snow breaks loose from the slope and starts to hustle down hill, these austrian avalanche blast is risk their lives to ensure the slaves are safe. yogi, this is always a risk, but we try to reduce that risk as much as possible. getting me with over there to minutes. let's go with a need, sees act managers, the slopes of the kitchen, han mountain in salzburg. mm. my in lawyer an a and his team start work at 6 30 in the morning. it's been snowing for the last few hours on the kitchen, han and there are strong winds. there is a high risk, an avalanche could occur. so the team is going to trigger at last he set off

a series of controlled avalanches. although his door shut, see how it looks very from wood or is that my guess is that on a day like this, there will be more to do at a high altitude. it's extremely cold today at the top it will be minus 18 minus 19 degrees. exciting the good day for some explosions. we've got real winter weather today. if they're going to rip according to the weather forecast, there's likely to be as much as 50 centimeters of fresh snow. about half of it has already fallen. everything to 20 centimeters or cold powder slope is minus 13 degrees. now don't differ. every minute counts. latina has to alice to make sure the glaciers ski resorts 60 kilometers of piece are safe before the craft start to arrive. they work and pass

25 year old krista bind. shop is the youngest and a new addition to the team. your thermals and of yours bring. we're packing the explosives. we're about to head out to trigger some avalanches. delusional detonators and explosives are always handled separately. well, i've been, i'll carry the explosives in my backpack, and renee will carry the detonators. i will be going out together, almost none of the and i'm going to answer the phone without getting that. let me dash this bag has the detonators in it. turn on over here, once we're on site, we ignite them and get the fuse burning through. sure. it is august to me as long moments warm in there. we have 2 minutes until the dis nights before midnight. so it's going from a ah, a hawk smith and i grew up in this world. what the, what my father was a piece manager here, and i've always been fascinated by all these. how was the skiing, the mountains and avalanche blasting myself? it's my dream job that has helped rate on bills.

i had a hand. this is where things start to get dangerous. that was nice because these, the path goes along there with the snow groomers responded to that they put there before the past. turns off. don't go fur, i will. okay. it will make dumble on all modul. yes, bar colin. so briefly, so powdery penny and kristof have to be extremely careful. a slab of snow could break off at any time on the steep slopes and sweep them away. at the top of the piece, they placed the 2 and a half kilogram plastic explosive on a wooden frame. it's situated one and a half meters above the fresh snow covered to maximize the impact of the explosion . once the fuse is burning, they have to evacuate as quickly as possible. i

just by get nobody on the slope. but then about one and a half minutes there will be an explosion if i wanted a book that is to she told me that there was no cavalry. is the shipper that was it of the beast, the paste is clear and secured. let's keep moving. ah, the controlled avalanche, thy trick it has reduced the risk of a more serious one. the peace is now safe. meanwhile, emmanuel and falls gung a hard at work further up the slopes. but former to me as the show,

well we're about to trigger an explosion on the central slow when does that's always high risk because it's pretty steep and it's where the kids always play. but today the dense snow flurries are making it difficult to see again, but the lift that soon and the glacier area. you can only get your bearings by looking for the ski lifts. otherwise it's just a wall of white. it's snowing and it's windy. i had been but i can just about make out the ski lift station so that tells me where i am doing. like what image you. bit of i thought indian when he gets off i'll go prepare the explosives sunday and he wants detonated. the slope is secured. jeff, this is one of the most critical slips in the whole ski area. they have the play area for children below. my name in the lloyds fills mondays of the vin

meats when the wind blows over the rock face from the north, where it's settling on this and the snow drifts can be dangerous on business. mar, primary objective is making sure the slopes are safe. alice of the is to see case martha has attached the explosive to a line. that way he can precisely position the explosive on the slope and determine exactly where it will go off. no, ma'am, this allowed him got the 1st explosive isn't position kind of in about one and a half minutes. it'll detonate the explosion can be felt 50, meet his away. nice one allergic goods. the explosion trigger, a controlled avenue launch. the service team will clear away the masses of snow and then open the slopes and the play area to the public. in austria alone, they were more than 100 avalanche ac since in 2021. 14 people were killed.

ah, and your back glass shall research his avalanches at the department for natural has its in spoken. today, his name is stew by valley investigating the destructive forces of avalanches. at samar gotten on for him, beth felt this is out to his field. i saw this protective structure here is the so called snow catch and o catcher with a power luncheon coming this way will end up here. you know, fish on lavine valve clocked out at home with her mom distorts. ponder light comes from up there. hurdles down home have all the and hits the snow. catcher, embalming fitted the structure with several senses that record the impact of the avalon shaft alsatian and wendy levina, metabolic and target. oh, oh, this is the perfect testing ground for the reset. every year. huge masses of snow

tumble more than 700 meters down the mountainside directly into the safety net. i love you not been famous up on one of our sensors was destroyed and i have a lunch. we've replaced it and i want to test it today to make sure it provides accurate values. fisher selling the sal her to correct about me for the snow catches to le prototype. numerous senses are installed along its supports and steel cables. when an avalanche hits the senses, provide important data and insights into how people can best be protected adults with i can, i'm desk people my so we're in the test area and we have 2 goals. how book we want to see how the structure reacts to the avalanche then, and how the structure affect the c avalon shine fuel alfie levina? by now banana level on a wall, for example. and that wall holds up 27th stant health and the avalanche love you flows of at the top of its limits. susan, besides the site,

the 4 bad gets compacted to that problem. yet about what happens when an avalanche hits a flexible structure. alba, nit structure. if knocked at so often and it's looked on install 2 cameras to record the impact of each avalanche vend, but so if particles can flow through it and how fast they flow and how they redirected, is that something we want to study? she have eaten to. so what if the snow catch a pressure tie proves useful? it could soon be used to protect buildings and rabbits against avalanches. back on the kitchen han, the weather remains the challenge we should dreamed her. the reason was because a very strong wind were about to trigger an explosion to secure the north slope. it's always good news is on the damage on us, but it's our job. there's half a meter of fresh snow on the avalanche trail north flight yard or smith this nancy

smith. when there's heavy snow it can get on really exhausting. ah, as he got mad, i imagine some people envy us, banana the joy, especially at 7 in the morning when the sun is shining, the shad you get to be the 1st on the slopes which have just been freshly groomed. but there's been much, at least some people would probably pay a lot of money for that on this. and so that's one of the perks of the job that if what they but of course it also has its downside, really care that a cat like having to be out in the bad weather to day the had the time to secure the ski areas and prevent avalanches to see jim, i will be glad to show you that my partner gets nervous in the mornings. brooks in the home by 10 o'clock, she'll be asking if i am okay and if everything worked out, my parents are more relax, lynch, bundle. all products then you definitely can't get stress when you're an avalanche blaster, but you do have to make quick getaways. but over we have to wait until the detonator. yoga is this, it is always a rest of it,

but we try to reduce that risk as much as possible. the mortgage them wouldn't bill so they would of all don't, will account for each other up and make sure that things run smoothly within the t, off discounts if one of the problems main on the orbit, only a top layer came off which of us that worked more or less, we shifted the snow in every major ski resort in austria, avalanche blast as make sure it's safe on the slopes. miss specially trained by experts in how to deploy explosives. was that all? nobody's knew. thank god, we didn't have these masses of snow on the slopes today, and all it is, this is how much it snowed since yesterday. this isn't why it's hot at the bottom and as fresh snow on top did on this is the fracture line where it breaks off. it all is all clear. cut what is on are in 400. if someone headed down the slope at exactly that angle,

that's where it would break off. it's no longer loose snow. it's more like a slab hollow came out as a short video shaped up flat like that one or a frequent cools of avalanches. and some of our because our explosives bunker well, when the social is this heavy honey and his colleagues trigger explosions every day on average, they need $1.00 to $2.00 tons of explosives per season. it's about $830.00. the 1st sky is and snowboard is arriving almost all the ski lifts and slopes on the kitchen. han are open. thanks to the avalanche blast is everywhere in the alps, blasting teams. ensure the mountain sides are safe. the

paths known valley interior. all angle about glass shall regularly holds avalanche training courses with skiers, and snowboard is who like to go off piece time when he knocked in the flat, depending on how extensive and stable the loose layer is. it might break along the fracture lines on an unstable layer will collapse with his walks and the slab might start to move on to o'connor's constant. apec, in pavilion coleman and the foxes cal. if the weak layers spread over wide area may trigger the slow slab of shape that common churn and all have a nice evening and see you tomorrow at 8459, a loyal nissan in the north. well, we want to avoid an avalanche emergency and you don't want to have to go looking for the buried vitus. but if it does happen, we need to know exactly what to do. and that's what we're going to review tomorrow . league focused on ian on can out. is that more which question?

ah, anyone crossing this to rein needs a functioning avalanche transceiver. ok as that. okay. come on down. log some like summer release early. we are going out here says right them for you. help me if i've got that live are good next on my but video goes, this is a l fire. this is an avalanche transceiver. i think it has 2 functions folk. so a transmitter function and a search function, you're adding this off right now the search function was activated, isn't that as anything in the display? it means it's receiving a signal from somewhere here, i'm signal and thanked. nod, severe, nod it closer. but grace gets toby, a classy called poly, i've checked that the groups avalanche transceivers are working on my devices, receiving properly am hogan then what i've made sure that everyone has a device turned on it. so we've taken the necessary safety precautions and we can

set off from it. this is if i don't recon buttons kill and again, with meanwhile at the top of the kit stein hon. renee and kristof are making their way to one of the most dangerous parts of the mountain. the slope to the rise of the tracks is a steep one. if they were too full, they'd be unlikely to survive. handling the explosives in the snow, flurries and temperatures of minus 20 degrees requires utmost concentration. ah, it's are slow. no, it's only 2 minutes. let's go. keep moving. the

dish of is let shifted things a busy, so wasn't a good vicky. the stones look wild with redone, let's head down to the of this slope is now safe, at least for the time being. if it keeps snowing, can a might have to close. the peace below. the other team is still busy. this is, it's on the wow. that's the north slow, so that's where we'll trigger the next block runs kiana. i might get block despite the risk of avalanches, the slope is popular among free right is much to the frustration of the teen. some snow sports enthusiasts are reckless and the avalanche blast is risk their lives, making sure the terrain is safe for them.

oh, in these conditions it's hard to tell if the artificial avalanche was effective in my law for this august of ink over the course of the day, the wind can scatter the snow. so even if we've triggered an explosion, the snow can pile up a gas. was washed in or for so you have to keep doing control runs. gosh, and keep an eye on the situation. you look at that area so that we're done here. we'll head now to the kids, lips station and it's off because at the advanced training course, it's time for the most important lesson. locating a person buried under sna nick 100. it's to our legged 8. we can turn off our devices now why we just need one device switched on a maintenance ticket in a backpack and bury it up there somewhere. go. ah, that that contains an active avalanche, chauncey that the sign, it's the name form. well, the location where the person who was buried was last seen to verify escape to take out your avalon transceiver and start searching with the saw him. he had

143012, but no 1000 down. playing bad when the, when the display is below yet re i, you're nearly their london fluke. psy commonweal lines are 2.0182.316 haines comm. i'm 1 point one common 1.0. i flint, hey one thought and these, and this is where i measure the lowest value 1.0 manually. next anger backlash are searches. the area with the prob, someone who is buried in an avalanche needs to be rescued within about 15 minutes after that their chances of survival drop rapidly market smith. my name is kim bandito stelis point. someone tends to ask, but mortified job, the person's eye. it is al, just a matter of life and death. tatum salgado effect here,

you can be worried about mine a stab wounds as a dog. so don't be too gentle to meet me, find the spot and, and push. i'm stations on films, hunt fact films on fact. so don't make sense to form the sounding. now i'm noticing that the product isn't going in quite his father. they some resistance, and that means remove your hands. ok prob stays in place and decent plots for the 1st time. you now have a decal contact with the person who's buried. allison contact some fish. it didn't time is running out every minute. count the fact that the sign itself and cope. this is the head. best best case scenario is on he's responsive economy, he can talk on this. this has to melissa. so now i can call the mountain rescue services and give the all clear on and talk on past days. okay. this gone to was me

. it's mark what we've just done is absolutely possible when somebody's been buried under as much as one of the half meters of snow up to 15 minutes, said silva. only if you know exactly what you have to do is i'd soon escape the euroleague. most of us are there any questions? gifts that's all because now it's your turn, but yet sad to hear that on the devastation, avalanches can wreak wasn't full display on february 23rd. 1999 in the small town of god to in to roll to christopher showed open feller. greatest destruction was about where the highest point of this wallace phone cut off on the somalis. back until march they was maoris garcia at the time. hammon hoopa was a member of the local council rehab feeling. i'll do that in an uncovered of all he like many locals. i was in crisis mode altos and it really drove home. what it

means to be a responsibility of heist, antoine, stagnant devices of guns. can i remember it very well? so i have to say goodbye and i was at my desk at the should i am the avalanche hit while i was working together in order for the snow, settled on the windows of all the houses in the village, wattsey. so it went dark, the kidney, and every one realized there had been an avalanche that don't live on. we'll die ms . thompson. when this done give was yet the emergency services went out immediately . isis can i have to see if we were able to start the search operation 10 minutes after the avalanche head of it's amy, not not levine. it, i guess. so with those who hindsight begin, help them in better the most at that if i spoke to the mayor on the phone and an hour later, we knew many people were missing. he did light up, we were mid search out there that i sad news began filtering in. don't answer nath rowdy, but i mustn't forget that a lot of people were also rescued. was that feed a lights out latent give me a total of $38.00 people died in one of the worst avalanche disasters in the else. in recent history.

numerous houses were also destroyed. the massive avalanche hurtled 1000 meters down the mountainside. did such dead on that, lovey, nevada, they saw the avalanche caused such devastation because nobody expected one to occur on such a massive scale. and i like if i knew lands and recalculations were made for high risk areas. i not justin got tied up in godson. i had led to a rethink everywhere in the abs region as my they saw him night, but i couldn't so that mm. and got to these protective walls will build that same year. a year later, the steel snow breeches were erected on the mountain. these were bus protective fences found throughout the elves, prevent large accumulations of snow known as cornices, from breaking off mountain ridges. piece safety in austria. ski results came under

increasing scrutiny in the wake of the guy to a disaster. more and more fully automatic blasting moths are being installed on high risk slopes. up to 12 explosive charges fit into the magazines. they triggered by the push of a button and explode a few meters above the snow pack. on the kitchen dining hall and one of the blasting moth has been malfunctioning with.

i've gone needs to find out what's going wrong with the saladas built within the magazines are computer controlled in all of my ins. other activated in response to pressure government involve, click thumbnail. open this up to check if everything's okay in there. if it isn't working okay, some of the chords might have gotten tangled up, or something might be jammed up. getting this new fuel for her to laura didn't was proclaimed tough to say, okay, are these are the containers on the chart? take a quick look though as fast. okay . yeah, it's okay. the metal can be used to morrow in the van mall. everything's all right . let's go to morrisville cast shows more heavy snow on the kitch time

home. back to the avalanche training course. it's now the participants tend to practice locating an avalanche victim. will they find the backpack with the avalanche transceiver? gather i. i'm ready. what is that i what's the value on the display? like, i'm a 2.7 bitch don't. if i you closer. i'm close. starting here. i write a homing in. nope. that should i go forward one? yeah, i can help you on police just above the ground. i think a bit further through pointless. yeah. you're closer locally. yeah, 0.4. woocommerce 0.70.5 here was 0.4, the lowest value. okay, good. so no, my probes in my backpack is things we need you back. i can hold times hope this

is the lead hold. the last section of the thought together to probe is a bit like a toothpick, as i don't know if you're going deep. the pro can bend in all directions already. don't a child told us what's my play? i love if i grace was both hands said yeah. oh, here it is. okay, so now i start digging. right. well, i'll pull that up as thought it takes a lot of practice. i'm of, i'm going to practice again at home to make sure i've really got it and has ended on you have to bear in mind. you might be panicking after an avalanche muscle focused. you need to have it down pat. otherwise you just forget it. even if it looks easy, i guess what you need to follow each of the steps lead i'd, what you would use is practicing ones isn't enough. if you need to be able to do it in your sleep lives taught in an emergency, the person buried in the avalon. it doesn't have much time before they die. it the

long he take like the less likely they are to surviving a pow you get a quote. so even an extreme situations, you need to act fast. oh, you can't hesitate. that's hilalem with jesus. reason a problem with have all the will from this time a happy outcome. yeah, thank on the get started on these now a level 3 avalanche morning. only half of the slabs are open, but thanks to him and his team, it's safe. even if to day there are only about $300.00 guests out and about, rather than the usual $10000.00 eyes on boxes for those tickets, right? that visitors can ski with peace of mind. things to ask him to school, knowing they're happy is what motivates me is what does nothing better? what sweetness? and for me personally dakshina, sitting in an office all day would be an absolute nightmare for the home.

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