Avalanche!: A pocket guide to understanding and reducing risks from Avalanches (Cicerone Guides) - Softcover

Bolognesi, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852844736 ISBN 13: 9781852844738

Publisher: Cicerone Press, 2015

Synopsis

This guidebook, aimed at winter sports enthusiasts and professionals, can help you learn the skill of avalanche prediction. The skill of avalanche prediction is both an art and a science. Mountaineers, skiers, climbers, snowboarders, snowshoers, walkers and all who love winter and snow sports need to learn that skill. Translated by the late Blyth Wright, the guide draws on the expertise of a wide range of professionals involved in mountain activities, as well as first-hand accounts of avalanche scenes from witnesses and survivors, to help you understand and predict avalanches, evaluate the risks and reduce the dangers. This practical, pocket-sized guide is for use on the mountain and during planning.
The guide also includes a NivoTest designed to help quantify the risks from avalanches.

About this title

About the Author

Robert Bolognesi, PhD, Polytechnic of Lausanne, is a graduate of the Institute of Alpine Geography, Grenoble, former researcher at the Swiss Federal Snow and Avalanche Research Centre, Davos, avalanche control practitioner and founder of METEORISK, specialising in the amelioration of weather-related risks. Avalanche and Snow were translated by Blyth Wright who has climbed and skied extensively in the UK, the Alps and North America for over 40 years. He was formerly Assistant Director of the International School of Mountaineering in Leysin, Switzerland, then worked for 20 years as an Instructor at Glenmore Lodge National Sports Centre. Since 1989 he has acted as Co-ordinator of what is now the sportscotland Avalanche Information Service. He has represented Scotland and the UK at many international meetings of snow and avalanche experts.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cicerone Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1852844736
• ISBN 13: 9781852844738
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112