Backcountry avalanche awareness

May 2014

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Near miss – climber’s assess recent avalanche debris in Aoraki/Mt Cook National Park Photo: Mark Watson
Minimise your avalanche risk! Avalanche forecaster Penny Goddard offers some simple tips to raise your awareness and help keep you safer Identifying avalanche terrain Avalanches usually occur in the same places, time after time. This means that just by selecting the right terrain, it’s relatively simple to keep out of harm’s way. You can gauge […]

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