i became a muslim so much different culture between here and there. so challenging for everything. ah, and to some of this i think it was worth it for me to kind of grants dot net. ah ah millions of visitors descend on the else every winter, including a growing number of free riding fans he liked to go off, pieced in search of deep powder with the fun can quickly take a dangerous ton. 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 slopes are safe.

yogi, this is always a risk, but we try to reduce that risk as much as possible. getting the movie some with over there to minutes. let's go with a need. see zak manage is the slopes of the kitchen, han mountain in salzburg. hi in morgan, 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 and avalanche could occur. so the team is going to trigger up last to set off a series of controlled avalanches. java is to wash out see how it looks me from would the really, my guess is that on a day like this 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 through according to the weather forecasts, there's likely to be as much as 50 centimeters of fresh snow. about half of it has already fallen books. everything to 20 centimeters are cold. powder sloan 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 pieced are safe before the crowd start to arrive. they work and pass. 25 year old krista fine shop is the youngest and a new addition to the team. it's our amazon of yours brand. 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 commencement will differ. was likely to that. let me dash this bag has the detonators in a tunnel over here. once we're on site, we ignite them and get the fuse. burning through short is august to make as long moments warm. and then we have 2 minutes until the dish nights before midnight. so that it's good going farmer aah! haa kirk 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. i was the skiing, the mountains and avalanche blasting. most of it's my dream job. and stay right on the roof and handling on the hill. this is where things start to get dangerous. the most beastly get these the path goes along there with us room or is it before they put there for the past,

turns off. don't go to her. a little kids is as it will make dumble on aunt module . yes, bar coleman, i saw 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 . i just, i guess nobody on the slides was in about one and a half minutes. there will be an explosion if i wanted to just do. she told me

that there was no cavalry. is the shipper that was it. of the beast paste is clear. what secures, let's keep moving. ah, the controlled avalanche, they trigger it has reduced the risk of a more serious one. the peace is now safe. meanwhile emmanuel and full of gung, a hard at work further up the slopes but from a to me as the truthful were about to trigger an explosion on the central slope. 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

egg but the least start 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 and i caught him as you read of i thought indian 5th of august. i'll go prepare the explosives. duncan once detonated the slope is secured. jeff, this is one of the most critical slips in the whole sky area. there's the play area for children below my name. lloyds fills mondays of the vin beats when the wind blows over the rocks, either from the north where it's settled 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 the 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. esl adam, got the 1st explosive isn't position kind of out in about one and a half minutes. it will detonate the explosion can be felt 50 meters away. nice one. have a good. the explosion triggered a controlled avenue launch. the service team will clear away the masses of snow and then open the slugs and the play area to the public. in austria alone, they were more than 100 avalanche accidents in 2021. 14 people were killed and you backed last shall research his avalanches. at the department for natural has it's in spoke today he's in the shoe by valley investigating the destructive

forces of avalanches at hi mark clinton on for him. beth failed. this is out his field. so this protect obstruct. to here is the so called snow catcher. no catcher for the power lunches coming this way. we'll end up here. i mean is fish on levine and 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 empowered, fitted the structure with several senses that recalled the impact of the avalon shaft. alf tyson, vandy levine in metabolic control, yet 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 and say this 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 the,

let me put the snow catches till the prototype. numerous senses are installed along . it's the ports and steel cables. when an avalanche hits the sensors, provide important data and insights into how people can best be protected adults with i am desk people, my so we're in the test area and we have 2 goals. how work we want to see how the structure reacts to the avalanche then, and how the structure affect the c avalanche. i'm sure alfie levina by lena, banana level. and it's a war for example. and that wall holds up 27th stant health and the avalanche levy flows over the top of it with us. fearsome, beside, excited for by it gets compacted to that problem, yet about what happens when an avalanche hits a flexible structure album, nit structure if not so often. and it's looked on install 2 cameras to record the impact of each avalanche then. but so if pascals can flow through it and

how fast they flow and how they redirected, if that's something we want to study 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 shirt trimmed her. the recent rose pis, a very strong wind. we're about to trigger an explosion to secure the north slope is always good news. it's on the damage on us, but it's our job. there's half a meter of fresh snow on the avalanche trend north flight garage miss nancy mia? 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 jobs that if what the about of course it also has its downside, really care that he cat like having to be out in the bad weather to day the head that the trying to secure the ski areas and prevent avalanches to see sion. i will be glad to show you that my partner gets nervous in the mornings. folks in the hug by 10 o'clock, she'll be asking if i am okay and if everything worked out, my parents are more relax, lynch bones of all parents, then you definitely can't get stressed when you're an avalanche blaster, but you do have to make quick getaways. but over we have to wait until the detonator yoga resists, it's always a rest of it, but we try to reduce that risk as much as possible. mm hm. 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 mangum

ah, was already a worker. 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. they especially trained by experts in how to deploy explosives. was that all nobody knew by 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 hard at the bottom and as fresh snow on top. good on. this is the fracture line where it breaks off and i was always counting what it's on our in 400, 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 cause of avalanches. it's of our because our explosives bunker.

well, when the so full 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 ski 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 clay shall regularly holds avalanche training courses with skiers. and snowboard is who like to go off. pieced one in austin. the flesh, depending on how extensive and stable the loose layer is,

it might break along. the fracture line plants uncommon and unstable layer will collapse with his walks and the slab might start to move, want a condo sponsor snippet into vague, uncommon, and the foxes cal. if the weak layers spread over wide area that may trigger the snow slab of shape that common churn and all have a nice evening and see you tomorrow. at 8459, i will need him to north fall. we want to avoid an avalanche emergency and you don't want to have to go looking for the buried the 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 one can out. is that more which question? ah, anyone crossing this terrain needs a sanctioning avalanche transceiver. ok as that. okay, come on down. log some like savannah lee slowly. now going out here

says write them for you. happy if i've got that flavor. good bye. next on my 3rd video garza lisa 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 there's anything in the display. it means it's receiving a signal from somewhere i'm signal and thanked. nod from. yeah. not a bit closer, but great. yes, toby, a classy called bully. i've checked that the groups, evelyn's transceivers are working and that my devices receiving properly m o get 10 . what i've made sure that everyone has their device turned on, is it? so we've taken the necessary safety precautions and we can set off from it. this is if i don't be conan patton's kellen again with

ah, meanwhile, at the top of the kitch stein, hon. attorney and kristof are making their way to one of the most dangerous parts of the mountain. the slope to the right of the tracks is the steep one. if they were to fall, they be unlikely to survive. handling the explosives in the snow, flurries and temperatures of minus 20 degrees requires utmost concentration. ah, it's a slow. it's over 2 minutes. let's go. keep moving, the dish

always let shifted things of busy. so as i entered vicky, the stones looked wild with redone, litzy down the slope is now safe, at least for the time being. if it keeps snowing and i might have to close the piece 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 flight runs kiana. i might get blossom 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. and i love for this august of in, 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 washing or follow. you have to keep doing control runs, rush, and keep an eye on the situation architect that isn't it. we're done here will had now to the kids, lips station is off because at the advanced training course, it's time for the most important lesson. locating a person buried under sna. your 100, it's to allah get it. 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. we're at the location where the person who is buried was last seen to tell 5. could you take out your evelyn transceiver and start searching with the saw him? he at 143012. that no controlling down bad. but when the rain, when the display is below yet re you're nearly their london fluke. cy,

commonwealth lines are 2.0182.316 times com. i'm 1 point one common 1.0. i for one, hey, one thought. and these, and this is where i measure the lowest value, 1.0, my oil next angle backlash. our search is 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 life came bandito stelis point. someone tends to ask, is but mortified job. the person's eye it is out is a matter of life and death. tatum salgado over 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 push. i'm stationed on films, hunt fact fuel on time fact. so,

don't make sense to form the sounding. now i'm noticing that the price isn't going in quite as far they some resistance, and that means remove your hands. ok prob stays in place and decent plots for the 1st time. you now have you physical contact with the person who's buried tallish contact. some for certain 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 his responsive economy. he can talk on this as to melissa, so now i can call the mountain rescue services and give the all clear on and talk on past days. okay. this concept was me, it's mark what we've just done is absolutely possible when somebody's been buried under as much as one and a half meters of snow for up to 15 minutes, said silva,

only if you know exactly what you have to do is i'd soon escape the euroleague most was are there any questions? gifts that's all because now it's your turn by 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 curse the shadow invalid. greatest destruction was about where the highest point of this wallace phone cut off and is a mile east. but until march there was maoris. gotcha. at the time, ham on hoopa was a member of the local council rehab feeling. i'll do it in an and cartoon of oil. he like many locals that i was in crisis mode, hotels and had really drove home. what it means to be a responsibility of high st. fontose, stagnant devices of cons. can i remember it very well, so i have dish incubating the i was at my desk at this and 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 c. so it went dark, the kitty and every one realized there had been an avalanche that don't live on. we'll die, miss 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 to not levine it. i guess she'll meet them so high. that's beginning. dump them into the mist. if they left, i spoke to the mayor on the phone and an hour later we knew many people were missing. he did i to up, we were mid search out if that i bad news began filtering in. don't answer nath rowdy, but i mustn't forget that a lot of people were also rescued as have faded lights out, latent give world a total of 38 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 mountain side. it says it on that lovey, nevada,

they sadly avalanche caused such devastation because nobody expected one to occur on such a massive scale. and i like if i knew the lands and recalculations were made for high risk areas, not justin godhood. in god's night latoya rethink everywhere in the obs region as monday. so naive, it aches and so it in. gotcha, these protective wools were built 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 riches. peace safety in austria, ski resorts came under increasing scrutiny in the wake of the car to 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 kid steinhoff, one of the blasting masts has been malfunctioning with. i've got needs to find out what's gone wrong with it is to ladders, fields that are in the magazines. are computer controlled? no of mine's other activated in response to pressure government involve. click thumbnail. open this up to check if everything's okay in their. their affiliates

isn't walk with some of the chords might have gotten tangled up, or something might be jammed. in this new fuel fertile dora britain was proclaimed, thought that he, okay. these are the containers on the child. take a quick look though his last question. okay. yeah, it's okay. i'm on the math can be used tomorrow in the van moore. everything's all right. let's go. tomorrow's focused shows more heavy snow on the kitchen horn 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 chance either gather i. i'm ready

with his that i but what's the value on the display like mama, 2.7. the stone? if i you close it. i'm close starting here as right homing in. that should i go forward one? yeah. now people on full is just above the ground. i think a bit further. 2.9. yeah, you're close. woocommerce. yeah, 0.4. woocommerce 0.70.5. he was 0.4, the lowest value. okay. good, well, oh no, my probes in my backpack in the u. back at all times. hi, this is sticky. hold the last section of the thought together. probe is a bit like a toothpick. i thought, i don't know if you're going deep. the pro can bend in all directions, holiday child thought ask what's my play? i love if i grace was both hands it.

oh, here it is. okay. so now i start digging right. but oh, yeah. it was great. takes a lot of practice. i'm of, i'm going to practice again at home to make sure i've really got it from 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 is that you need to follow each of the steps i'd want you to practicing ones isn't enough. if you need to be able to do it in your sleep. most thought in an emergency, the person buried in the avalon dish doesn't have much time before they die. the long he take the less likely they are to surviving a pow he get a quote. so even an extreme situations, you need to act fast. oh, you can't hesitate to tell him what he says. he's been a problem with. have all the will from them. kind of this time,

hippa happy outcome. yeah. okay, on the get started on these now a level 3 avalanche morning. only half of the slabs are open, but thanks to him a on 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, although super close to it's right, that visitors kamisky with peace of mind, things to ask him to knowing they're happy as what motivates me is what does nothing better sweetness. and for me personally dakshina sitting in an office all day would be an absolute nightmare. ah, the 77 percent is bringing you an episode full of female power. i don't music that

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