{"id":1959,"date":"2015-02-22T22:37:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T21:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/?p=1959"},"modified":"2015-02-23T06:31:19","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T05:31:19","slug":"avalanche-fatailities-swiss-alps-rises-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/snow-conditions\/avalanche-fatailities-swiss-alps-rises-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche fatailities in Swiss Alps rises to 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/avalanche.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/avalanche.jpg\" alt=\"high avalanche risk continues\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1962\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/avalanche.jpg 900w, http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/avalanche-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a>Twenty five winter sports enthusiasts have died already this season in Switzerland alone, with almost four times that number dying in the Alps as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>I talked about the risks and how to mitigate them in a previous blog, so I won&#8217;t repeat myself.<\/p>\n<p>However, when I read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/feb\/22\/swiss-alps-avalanche-ski-death-toll-rises-four\" title=\"Avalanche risk article in Guardian\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian report<\/a> on the latest incident, apparently concerning a party of Italian cross-country skiers, my interested was piqued. How on earth could cross-country skiers be at avalanche risk? The good news was thwey were carrying transponders&#8230; wait a minute, is there a hard core of cross-country skiers who carry transponders in case of an avalanche. I mean those hearty types who walk in two carefully manicured tracks in their skis or who rhythmically skate around the high valley floors?<\/p>\n<p>And the location. Great Saint Bernard Pass! Wait a minute, that is for hard core freeriders&#8230; and now it makes sense, they were going a<strong>cross<\/strong> the snowy <strong>country<\/strong>side, in fact they were probably going a<strong>cross<\/strong> <strong>countries<\/strong>. Suddenly cross-country skiing has taken on a wholly different image in my mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty five winter sports enthusiasts have died already this season in Switzerland alone, with almost four times that number dying in the Alps as a whole. I talked about the risks and how to mitigate them in a previous blog, so I won&#8217;t repeat myself. However, when I read the Guardian report on the latest &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/snow-conditions\/avalanche-fatailities-swiss-alps-rises-25\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Avalanche fatailities in Swiss Alps rises to 25&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[39,234,99,37,33,113,34,40,241,158],"class_list":["post-1959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snow-conditions","tag-alps","tag-freeride","tag-high","tag-ski","tag-skiing","tag-swiss","tag-swiss-alps","tag-switzerland","tag-transponder","tag-winter-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1959"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1964,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions\/1964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}