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a wet others a dry it all depends on the snows composition and speed of avalanches varies between seventy and four hundred kilometers an hour man can do nothing in the face of tons of snow rushing down to such a velocity. and yet people do live in the mountains they study avalanches to be able to protect themselves from each year skiers and snowboarders tempt fate by taking to the mountain slopes. in. this weather station in the q.b. massive is situated close to the town of killer ups one hundred fifty kilometers north of the arctic circle it is one of the instruments of the avalanche safety service it records dozens of readings several times a day snow and ground temperatures wind direction solar activity and precipitation

all those factors affect the snow and its structure the station staff uses them as the basis for political reform casts concerning avalanches. what triggers a sudden movement of snow in the mountains resulting in a formidable natural disaster. finding the answer to that question is the job of scientists to some petersburg's hydra me to relaunch a cool university one of the factors triggering an avalanche is nothing more unusual than snow evaporation little flakes turn into vapor even at very low temperatures. but with. the talk lower of the snow but he escapes into the year our youth. but in low light it settles on large snowflakes turns into us. really as a result snow in the lowest layer turns into large round crystals. this

makes the top most layer slide over the ground pellets. the only way to fight avalanches is to get them to move before they begin sliding down the road whenever a weather forecast points to snow instability avalanches or sets off to prevent the risk of a larger one occurring before the road so blocked ski routes are closed and the area was cordoned off a modern computer system controls avalanche movement gases fed into a bell suspended from a helicopter an operator then say there's a spark in the belt on the gas explodes the shock wave triggers an avalanche. this method is widely used in the foothills of the caucasus close to the city of

sochi russia's most popular ski resort a situation here. is in the world are prone to avalanches and all of them are affected by our launches every single one. yes the slope is avalanche prone if it is steeper than fifteen to twenty degrees. the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics is to take place here in new ski lifts are being built a modern trails are being prepared the downhill routes varying complexity some are just right for buzzing skiers others pose a challenge to professional sportsmen. the caucasus mountains occupy an area about the same size of an average european country groups provided with all the necessary facilities take up a small part of the slopes so far it is only possible to reach most of the mountain

top spy helicopter going downhill where nobody. his set foot is the ambition of many skiers and snowboarders there is a special term for his costly form of entertainment kelly skiing. to get their wish her well being is what every free rider aspires to it just takes your breath away to ride down the slope after a helicopter. flies you to some out of the way not in the mountains. national. ones we've left the helicopter we have to test the snow. so what this

means is well we make it picks to see the pattern of snow fall in the last few weeks. if we see that there's a danger of an avalanche happening that day and we just pack up straightaway and go home when the situation is just right though we follow this route down the mountain . in the wilds of the route the better the snow sure you have so many different routes lying ahead of you so you can choose whichever way you want to go down the mountain bending on the level of skiing your experience in english is how good you are. studying and forecasting avalanches is a complicated process with many phases any forecast supplied by the weather station can never be certain accurate conclusions are made only after testing the snow cover as a particular point. one layer of the snow is compact the other is loose

you can see it is fluffy. but you see if i touch this with my finger it is almost uniform i'm going to see her figure this and there's twenty five centimeters of snow drift. a snow drift is the layer that moves with the wind from one location to another this type of snow has the weakest bond with the lower layers. when somebody comes to the slope they see such snow but they don't know what it is like underneath it may be packed in america case it is not dangerous what if it is unstable down there you just step on the snow and it slides away from you if the snows temperature structure and density are all measured by the specialists to see how the layers bond together they handle the readings right on the spot. and test demonstrates that the top layer of the snow drift on the slope is unstable

so it may start sliding and ski is or snowboards right over it which could then trigger an avalanche so now we're going to designate the area as hazardous and closed to the public. attention of those of you who are keen to scale mountain peaks please be careful according to the evelyn safety center a heightened alert has been declared for the next two days because of an avalanche hazard. emotionally viggiano is a ski resort within the arctic circle originally it was meant as a place where the people of the town of killed lost can spend their vacations today tourists from across the country come to visit. and we were going there for ten days but trouble struck on the second. memories of what happened then are so vivid in young's minds but it seems as though it were just yesterday but in fact several years have passed since the accident in many ways that incident changed his life.

but if you look at the slope from below you will see a clearing between the trees as it is and it is there because frequent avalanches sweep away trees standing in their path i did not know at the time what the slope was avalanche prone. none of the people who came to that slope could even imagine the outcome. free riders make a special point of looking for wild slopes to ride over virgin snow. for the past ten years yevgeny cliff a cough has taken groups of free riders on the city of your coast to the my my past on the southern shore of lake baikal. the lake in the air could screech in is the

world's largest body of fresh water locals call it a c. it is fifteen hundred meters deep in place it's. part will cover part of the distance over the ice of lake baikal then it will be several kilometers of a winding path in the mountains another ten kilometers along a stream goal which. you could say the place is in the. wilderness there isn't any electricity or a decent road there it can only be reached either by snowmobile on foot. on the way to its destination the group registers with the local rescue service. an official of the service and rescue party takes note of its roots the number of people involved and approximate date of the group's return if the group fails to turn up on time rescue teams will undergo

a search and rescue operation like all other groups of this kind this one is briefed before it continues its journey. i wish to formally warn you of possible avalanches in the mountains you should be on alert especially after lunch time when warmer weather normally causes snow falls also a storm alert has been declared for tomorrow northwesterly winds of up to twenty meters a second. a member of the rescue services joins the clip of the group they go as far as the foot hills where the road ends they then cover ten kilometers across low hills with an all terrain vehicle of the four taking a ride from the slope of the group needs to hike up hill on force as no motor vehicles can get up such an incline.

but. we're heading towards slopes hidden from the sun because that's where pax knows likely to be. he may begin moving any time now that's why i will go skiing on the shady side close to the forest the snow still holds on. despite the long pole the group of free riders managed to scale the mountain and go downhill on the first day and for some so. it was.

too much or is that so much i was about the feeling of i didn't want to go to the world of a real crisis or morris yeltsin was he a great man who made history or was he merely a product of his time and opinions differ widely don't know when to. to a substantial degree and one problem or another socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation over most of the nations of the earth and the shadow is encroaching upon all the friends. of the early twenty first century military bases the network of military bases all around the world forms the

empire that the united states is trying to build it's astonishing most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million or more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s. troops stationed on these bases all around us. we don't have fallen bases of america we don't have any british base we don't have any korean base we don't have any french bases or you know we just all american bases in cross bases of our. noises our northeast of those bother us at all because they're our bases but for other people it's almost like a cancer here for the spiel since the end of world war two the spaces i've been. working here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. the

questions the other thing else is to get everything you need. the peninsula within the arctic circle is russia's northernmost point over. in the mountains has been hit by an avalanche rescue was of the care regional rescue services receive request for assistance they do not know how long it will take them to reach the scene a lot depends on distance the terrain and weather conditions they have vivid memories of what happened to a group of skiers from st petersburg a few years ago. which is one of those who know all so well the full force of an avalanche feels like. who through as they approach the edge to get ready for the descent. i mean yes i was knocked over with such force from my clubs and happened

in the shuttle and everything became unfastened. i sensed i was tumbling down at top speed with an enormous mass of something pressing on me they were it was like being under a stamping press but i cannot say how long all that lasted but i was told the avalanche was on the move for only four or five seconds but to me it seemed like an eternity with enormous blocks of snow and ice reduce everything in their path to smithereens they sweep away trees and destroy buildings at one point i felt as if i was literally bending over backwards with the stress on my spine was so great i thought my back would be broken. then my head was out of the snow. i think my lungs had filled up with snow and i strained to cough it up i remember feeling afterwards that my chest had become lighter as it. yann was dug up by

a companion who had not been caught up in the avalanche rescuers found three more men carried on to the snow they were dead quite often it takes several days to find victims buried in an avalanche for me to long proops they used to dig into the snow this is the only method to find a free rider unless he has a radio beacon on it. when the probe hits something soft its clear it is a victim a sound produced by the probe in that case is also helpful so we begin digging right there and then fairly sure is a doctor with a local rescue team he always joins the team on duty when they go to help avalanche victims his eight kilogram kit contains all the necessary equipment for on site reanimation though in practice he rarely needs it and for according to statistics if the victims are stuck in an avalanche for fifteen minutes their chances of survival of fifty percent any longer and there is

a sharp drop in the chances of survival. we haven't recovered a buried survivor from an avalanche around here in the past ten years. of intense preparations for the winter olympics of cut the number of burgeon slopes in the vicinity of sochi available for free riding results rescuers will be hard put to recall the last time they dealt with avalanche related incidents. and ten i stick out of the snow on the mountain slopes they are the visible part of what is otherwise covered with snow these are ultimately weather stations days or is continuously supplied to an online computer of the resorts government controls. the station measures snow depth air temperature humidity wind characteristics solar radiation. and it's very precious to lease and more allowance to forecast avalanches with you because you have. these

old looking pipes on mountain top so part of the results of a safety system. they are linked to so-called shelters booths containing gas cylinders with oxygen propane. moisture no k. everything's in order here for shelter oxygen and front pain is fed to an empty avalanche come from special pipes and operators sets off the gas mixture by pressing a button. in the old days all resorts use guns or mortars to fight avalanches they would be brought to a slope and fired at a designated target nowadays there grandcolas falling into disuse. we have resolved the problem by taking on purely ecological systems used elsewhere in the world. here because they don't damage the ground either in summer or in

winter. they simply remove the snow whenever we want to get rid of it back or get on. a computer at the avalanche control service receive signals from automatic weather stations twenty four hours a day they respective of weather conditions the figures are then analyzed and. if necessary the operator uses the same computer to set a small avalanche in motion which cannot do any harm. which as we say any slip can pose an avalanche hazard. avalanches make or even in the most unlikely places that. police skiing enthusiastic take every possible precaution that they can ever be fully guaranteed against being caught in an avalanche. and the victim is that when you get on the fresh snow it's already under stress but you make things worse by adding your

weight to it on top of that is you cutting the snow with your skis and all my combined myself an avalanche. normally the guy will do the job himself of testing the snow and if he senses the possibility of an avalanche he might deliberately force know to get moving. if the if you cut into the snow in front of me that doesn't mean it won't snap behind his trudel first break up front but little crack behind you to you no matter whether you've done the counting or somebody else has done it for you. what if it were. scientists and some peaches further research the peculiarities of the mountains ice and snow there is also surprising as it turns out an ice rupture generates a radio wave that can be located. i mean the most interesting thing about it is that radio frequency emissions take place shortly before i was sharing. it will

this means it's possible to full cost as well as record are sharing. this can be done if only for a short time before just in our research. experiments for the snow by the scientists have also demonstrated that during its slide and avalanche to them it's radio waves. clear tonight is that radio missions are generated by a small snow crystals rubbing against one another is a resemblance pointing to the existence of radio frequency radiation even in a visible range people see light coming from nighttime metal anxious. for the time being it is possible to forecast of a launch is only a few seconds ahead special radio receivers they used for the purpose. mountain on the southern side of lake baikal is known for its fluffy snow it is light soft and powdery freeriding fans need to demonstrate highly professional

skills in such conditions otherwise one uncertain move may land you waist deep in the snow along the untamed slopes of fruit for the numerous risks for the novice. but. there you can see a large area covered with snow there were lots of trees there five years ago to go to a big avalanche in december swept away everything in its way. places a constant reminder of the threat posed by avalanches.

hughey riders from neighboring towns have built cabins in the foothills of mount my they spend weekends here there is nothing inside apart from stoves tables and makeshift beds the cabins are almost buried in snow which makes them look like big snow drifts with chimneys before they get to the mountaintop free riders spend a good deal of time scrambling along with skis on their backs. you may not like it here before you enjoy sliding down hill you're unlikely to enjoy going up hill on foot complete with nori likely to be very keen to stoke the coals in the stove even during the night here you can leave without wearing snowshoes to cope with it you really need to love it all this landscape this forest is weather and this permanent snowfall.

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