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there are some people who head into the danger zone our team meets the avalanche adrenaline junkies next that. the cooler peninsular in russia's north home to the q.b. any massive mountain range this is the cold and windy bolshoi pass the snow here is between one and a half and four meters deep avalanche safety specialists are probing the snow structure on one of the slopes. the top layer of snow drifts on a slope is unstable and ski is could trigger an avalanche of attention to those of you who it came to skull mountain thinks please be careful. some avalanches a wet others

a dry it all depends on the snow's composition the speed of avalanches varies between seventy and four hundred kilometers an hour man can do nothing and face of tons of snow rushing down to such a velocity. and yes 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 situations close to the town of killer apps 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 for severe taishan all those factors affect the snow and its structure the station staff uses

them as the basis for plymouth 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 peaches bugs high for 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. in the top layer of the snow but he escapes into the year very. well in low lows and settles on large snowflakes turns into us. really as a result snow in the lower turns into large round crystals. this makes the top most 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 are set 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 said his a spot in the belt on the gas explodes the shockwave 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 is situated his.

own mountains in the world are prone to avalanches and all of them are affected by our launches every single one. of the slope is avalanche prone if it is steeper than fifteen to twenty degrees. the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics has 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 budding skiers others pose a challenge to professional sportsman. the cuckoo says 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 tops by helicopter going downhill where nobody. his set foot is the ambition of

many skiers and snowboarders there is a special term for this 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 knock in the mountains. as she. once we left the helicopter we have to test the snow. so what this means is will we make a kick 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 ridge the better the snow sure you have so many different grips lying ahead of you so you can choose whichever way you want to go down the mountain depending 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 of any forecast supplied by the weather station can never be certain accurate conclusions are made only after testing the snow cover of a particular point. one layer of the snow is compact the other is a 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 how thick it is and there's twenty five centimeters of snow drift. snow drift is the layer that moves with the wind from one location to another this type of snow has the weakest bone of the lower layers . but when somebody comes to the slope they see such snow but they don't know what it is like underneath it may be packed and i'm a case it is not dangerous but what if it is unstable down there you just step on the snow and it slides away from you if the snow's 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. with. the 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 has

a list and closed to the public. attention those of you who are keen to scale mountain peaks please be careful according to the avalanche safety center a heightened alert has been declared for the next two days because of an avalanche hazard. or 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. we were going there for ten days but trouble struck on the second. memories of what happened then are so vivid in young's mind but it seems as though it was just yesterday was in fact several years of passed since the accident in many ways that incident changed his life. and if you look at the slope from below you will see

a clearing between the trees and it is there because frequent avalanches sweep away trees standing in their path i did not know at the time that 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 version snow. for the past ten years yevgeny cliff a cough has taken groups of free riders from the city of your coast to the mom i pass on the southern shore of lake baikal. the lake in the air cooled 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. what will come upon to the distance over the ice of lake baikal then it will be several kilometers in 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 can only be reached either by snowmobile all 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 press two 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 north westerly winds of up to twenty meters a second. a member of the rescue services joins the clavichord group they go as far as the foothills where the road ends they then cover ten kilometers across low hills with an all terrain vehicle before 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.

heading towards slopes hidden from the sun because that's where pax knows likely to be only he may begin moving any time now that's why i will go skiing on the shady side close to the forests the snow still holds on. despite the long hole a group of free riders managed to scale the mountain and go downhill on the first day before sunset.

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the polar peninsula within the arctic circle is russia's northernmost point a group of sportsman skiing in the mountains has been hit by an avalanche rescue as of a chair oscar regional rescue services receive requests for assistance they do not know how long it will take them to reach the scene a lot depends on distance but to rain on weather conditions they have vivid memories of what happened to a group of skiers from some pages but a few years ago januvia bitch is one of those who know all too well what the full force of an avalanche feels like. with two but as i approach the edge to get ready for the descent. i mean yes i was knocked over with such force from my clothes 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 good only it was like being under a stamping press. i cannot say how long all that lasted you know 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 and 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 buried under the snow they were dead quite often it takes several days to find

victims buried in an avalanche for me to long proops i 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 appropriate something soft it's clear there is a victim 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 has a kilogram kit contains all the necessary equipment on site reanimation though in practice he rarely needs it. according to statistics if victims are stuck in an avalanche for fifteen minutes their chances of survival are 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.

intense preparations for the winter olympics of cut the number of burgeon slopes in the vicinity of sorts the freeriding results rescuers will be hard put to recall the last time they dealt with avalanche related incidents. antennas to counter the snow on the mountain slopes they are the visible part of what is otherwise covered with snow these are ultimately weather stations taser is continuously supplied to an online computer of the resort's cover launch control. the station measures snow depth temperature humidity. characteristics solar radiation. and it's very precious with this and more allow us to forecast avalanches with. these old looking pipes on mountaintops a part of the results of

a safety system. failing to so-called shelters booths containing cast cylinders with oxygen propane. morphine or no ok everything's in order here for shelter oxygen and frank payne 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 pfizer to designate a target nowadays they're gradually falling into disuse. we have resolved the problem by taking on purely ecological systems used elsewhere in the world. cup 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 or get out on the

other. a computer at the avalanche control service receive signals from automatic weather stations twenty four hours a day a respective of weather conditions the figures are then analyzed. 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 has a. avalanches maker even in the most unlikely places. police skiing enthusiastic every possible precaution but they can never be fully guaranteed against being caught in an avalanche. of everything that is 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 and i will. normally the guide will

do the job himself of testing the snow and if he senses the possibility of an avalanche he might deliberately force the snow to get moving. if the it's upward if you cut into the snow in front of me that doesn't mean it won't snapped 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 if you have it all. scientists and some pages per research the peculiarities of the mountains ice and snow there is also surprising as it turns out an ice rupture generates a radio wave 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 possible to forecast as well as record our sheering. this can be done if only for a short time before just

a no. you know. experiments for the snow by the scientists have also demonstrated that during its slide an avalanche tube emits radio waves. clear radio missions are generated by a small snow crystals rubbing against one another using is their resemblance pointing to the existence of radio frequency radiation even in a visible range people have seen light coming from night time avalanches. for the time being it is possible to full cost of a launch is only a few seconds ahead special radio receivers they use for the purpose. mounted on my on the southern side of lake baikal is known for its fluffy snow it is light soft compound 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 are lots of trees there five years ago to go to a big avalanche in december swept away everything in its way that place is a constant reminder of the threat posed by avalanche of about us. three riders from neighboring towns have built cabins in the foothills of mt. 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 smoking chimneys before they get to the mountain top we were just spend a good deal of time scrambling along with skis or boards on their backs. you may not like it here if you enjoy sliding down hill you're unlikely to enjoy going uphill on foot completely nor are you likely to be very keen to stoke the coals in the stove even during the night here you can't leave without wearing snowshoes to cope with it you really need to love it all this landscape this forest this weather and this permanent snowfall.

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military bases the network of military bases all around the world forms the belief 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 and. we don't have power bases in 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 our bases afai there are the noises our north as it doesn't bother us at all because they're all bases but for other people it's almost like a cancer here for these people. since the end of world war two the spaces i've been . working here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody.