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 p