controlled explosions, that trigger feels like before they become a danger. their name, the avalanche glasser. next to delete. but as you go to use is the thoughts they will grey you with ah, millions of visitors descend on the alps every winter. including a growing number of free riding fans who like to go off pieced in search of deep powder with the fun can quickly take

a dangerous turn. if the snow breaks loose from the slope and starts to hazel down hill. these austrian avalanche blasters 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 someone over there to minutes. let's go with an aide. see zach managers. the slopes of the kitchen, han mountain in salzburg high 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's a high risk, an avalanche could occur, so the team is going to trigger a blast. he set off

a series of controlled avalanches. charlotte is the washer to see how it looks me 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 a 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 of cold out or snow 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 craft start to arrive. they work and pass.

25 year old krista fine shop is the youngest and a new addition to the team. jo thermals and of year's banquet packing the explosives were 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 ransom will defer was likely to doesn't mean that ash this bag has the detonators in it's not 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 and then we have 2 minutes until the decent aids before midnight. so it's 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 it. all this out was the skiing, the mountains and avalanche blasting. most of it's my dream job. i

read on bills. i had no way i could handle. this is where things start to get dangerous. that was nice because these, the path goes along there with the snow grimmer is before they put there before the past. turns off. don't go fur, i will. okay. it will make dumble on or module yes, bar code. 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 minute let us do. she told me that there was no cavalry is shipper. that was it of the beast. the piece is clear. that security 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 heart at work further up the slopes it somewhat to me

as the shoes were 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. and i couldn't image you bit of i thought indian but 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 to play area for children below my name in the lloyd's pills,

mondays of the vin beats when the wind blows over the rocks directly 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 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, there's a lot and what's the 1st explosive is in position kind of out in about one and a half minutes. it'll detonate. explosion can be felt 50 meters away. nice one allergy goods. 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 will more than 100 avalanche accidents in 2021. 14 people were killed

and backed lie. i shall research his avalanches at the department for natural has it's in spoke today he's in this dubai valley investigating the destructive forces of avalanches at samar gotten on for him, beth failed. this is out his field. so this protective structure 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 fun? levina valve clocked out at all with her. mom distorts. ponder light comes from up there. hurdles, down home, home, and hits the snow catcher, embalming fitted the structure with several senses that recalled the impact of the avalon shaft alsatian, maybe levina 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 now. i can say this 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 censors provide important data and insights into how people can best be protected adults with i from 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 and it's a war for example. and that wall holds up 27th stock. then the avalanche levied

slows out at the top of this group at susan. besides the site, the for bad gets compacted to that problem. yet about what happens when an avalanche hits a flexible structure. alba, nit structure if not so often and it's looked on his stole to cameras to record the impact of each avalanche offend, but so if pascals can flow through it and how fast they flow and how they redirected. is that something we want to study here from the 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 be sure dreamed her. the result 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 garage, miss nadia,

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 relaxed with lynch bones of all products, 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 tonight's yoga is. this is always a rest of it,

but we try to reduce that risk as much as possible. the mortgage them would be also because 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 is 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 from the slopes. they especially trained by experts in how to deploy explosives. was that oh nobody 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 and i was always counting what it's on our end ponder. if someone headed down the slope

at exactly that angle, that's where it would break off, but it's no longer loose snow. it's more like a slab hollow, krashib artificial video shaped up flat like that one or a frequent cause of avalanches. some of our because our explosives bunker live. ok 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 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 you know in the flat, depending on how extensive and stable the loose layer is, it might break along the fracture lines on some common. an unstable layer will collapse with his walks and the slab might start to move on to come to sponsors may fit into vague and coleman, and the foxes to the weak layer is spread over wide area that may trigger the snow slab along shape that common churn and all have a nice evening and see you tomorrow at 8459, i will need him to note while we want to avoid an avalanche emergency, we don't want to have to go looking for the buried of i it is. 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 blocks. hello, release really? now, yes, that's right them for you. help me if i've got the clive are good, bye, next or by the video goes. this is a l fire. this is an avalanche transceiver. i think it has to function default, so a transmitter function and a search function for adding this off right now, the search function is activated and that does anything in the display. it means it's receiving a signal from somewhere i'm signal and thanked. nod, sylvia nod a bit closer, but grace gets toby a classic called bully. i've checked the groups avalanche trends. he was a working him at my devices receiving properly. m oh get 10 what i've made sure that every one has the 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 become non fat insulin again, with meanwhile at the top of the catch time, han honey 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 a steep one. if they were to full they'd be unlikely to survive. handling the explosives in the snow, flurries and temperatures of minus 20 degrees requires utmost concentration. rhodes was literally it's only 2 minutes. let's go keep moving. the

dish of is let shifted. things are busy. so wasn't a good vicki. the stones look wild with redone, let sit down with this slope is now safe, at least for the time being. if it keeps snowing, honey might have to close the piece below. the other team is still busy. this is it's on the way that the north slow, so that's where we'll trigger the next flight 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 and i will offer this august the vehicle with the course of the day the wind can scatter the snow. so even if we've triggered an explosion, the snow can pile up against washing orfa, so you have to keep doing control runs and keep an eye on the situation architect. yes, and it's, we're done here. we'll head now to the kids, lips station and it's off at the advanced training course, it's time for the most important lesson. locating a person buried under snow. near 100, it's to our liquidate. 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, the back back contains an active avalanche, chauncey that resign it's the name for. well, the location where the person who was buried was last seen so far as could you take

out your avalon transceiver and start searching with the saw him yet, 133012. good. now coming down. going back. but when the run, when the display is below yet re, you'll nearly their london fluke. cy, commonwealth lines are 2.0182.316 times coma. i'm 1 point one common 1.0. i flung hey one. so and these, and this is where i measured 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 name is kim bandito stelis point. someone tends to ask, but more of a job, the person's eye. it is algae is a matter of life and death. it takes them salgado effect. her you can't be worried

about. mine is stab wounds as a dog. so don't be too gentle to meet me. find the spartan, and push, i'm stations on and films hunt fact films on fact. so don't make hits to form the sounding. now i'm noticing that the pregnancy going in quite his father has some resistance hendo. that means remove your hands. ok prob stays in place and decent plots for the 1st time. you now have, how did you call contact with the person who's buried? allison contact some for sure. didn't time is running out every minute. can't be factor design itself and cook. this is the head. best best case scenario is on he's responsive because he can talk on this this as to my letter. so now i can call the

mountain rescue services and give the all clear on on talk on past days. ok. 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 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? gift that's because now it's your turn, but yet that's here on the devastation. avalanches can wreak, wasn't full display on february 23rd. 1999 in the small town of god to into roll the gross, the shadow invalid, greatest destruction was about where the highest point of his wallace phone cut off on his. molly's back until march there was maoris. gotcha. at the time how mon hoopa was a member of the local council rehab, feeling, i'll do it in an uncle to it of all he like many locals,

i was in crisis mode hotels and had really drove home what it means to bear responsibility of highest fontose to stagnant devices of con skin. i remember it very well, shall i have to think if i india i was at my desk at this times the avalanche hit while i was working the goggle in doors for the snow, settled on the windows of all the houses in the village, wattsey. so it went dark, the kitty and everyone realized that had been an avalanche. don't give 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, i would say no to not levine it, i guess she'll meet them so high. that's beginning. got them into the mice at that . if 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 there that i, sad news began filtering him. don't answer nath rowdy, but i mustn't forget that a lot of people were also rescued as at feet lights out latent give for 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 mountain side. it steadily died lavine while they suddenly 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 got tied up in godson. i had led to a rethink everywhere on the alps region as my they saw him naive. it aches and so it and got 2 of these protective walls were built that same year, a year later, the steel snow bridges 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 and austria. ski results 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. rosalie, a saladas feel to 3 in the magazines are computer controlled in all of my other activated in response to pressure governmental involve clicked on will open this up to check if everything's okay in there. if it isn't walk with some of the chords might have gotten tangled up or something might be jammed up. didn't this new fuel for her to dora? didn't, was proclaimed, thought that . okay, are these are the containers on the charl take a quick look though as fast. okay . yeah, it's okay. i'm on the mass can be used to morrow in the van more. everything's all right. as alice goes to morrow's forecast shows more heavy snow on the kitch

tihawn 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 avalon chance either gather i, i'm ready with is that i what's the value on the display? like m r 2.7? be soon if i you close it. i'm close starting here as right now. homing in. that should i go forward on? yeah, i know people on police just above the ground, i think a bit further. 2.9, you're closer woocommerce. yeah, 0.4, woocommerce 0.70.5 here was 0.4, the lowest values. okay, good. well, oh no, my probes in my backpack is things when you back at all times how to

switch the whole, the last section of the thought together to produce a bit like a toothpick, as i don't know if you going deep, the pro can bend in all directions already. a child told us what's my play? i love if i grace was both hands. yeah. oh, here it is. okay, so now i start digging right. but i was hoping that. yeah. as soon as it takes a lot of practice, this time 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 missile focused. you need to have it down pat, otherwise you just forget it. even if it looks easy, i think it's what you need to follow each of the steps lead. i'd what you would you say practicing once isn't enough. if you need to be able to do it in your sleep, last fall in an emergency, the person buried in the avalon just doesn't have much time before they die. the

long he take, the less likely they are to survive. 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 her father will from them kind of this time a happy outcome. yeah. hang on the kid stein. one, there is no 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 good, it's great that visitors can ski with peace of mind, things to ask him to see knowing they're happy as what motivates me is what does nothing better or sweetness? and for me personally dakshina sitting in an office all day would be an absolute nightmare.

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