Avalanche Danger
Sir,—The present widespread avalanche danger in the mountains should be a warning to ski clubs to provide sufficient avalanche rescue poles and shovels at every hut and shelter at every level on their ski grounds, ready for instant use. All too often have I heard remarks such as, “Oh she’s jake; that slope has never avalanched and she never will.” The more people who go ski-ing, ignorant of the causes of avalanches, the greater the chances of their starting avalanches by ski-ing when and where they should not It is not good enough to depend on ski and slalom poles and coal shovels for rescue work. Our ski slopes are not close to alpine villages from which tools might readily be borrowed.—Yours, etc., CECILIA O’RORKE. July 7, 1968.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31726, 9 July 1968, Page 12
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