Avoidable or bad luck? BBC tonight "One Wild Winter in the Scottish Mountains" claims experts know why. "The avalanche does not know that you are an expert" wrote Andre Roch. Scotland has always lurched between a martime snowpack where instablities are short lived, and a continental snowpack where stabilities or instabilities are longer lived. It's not new, or a revelation! I thought I would post the article below as it provides another side of the debate where some folks voice the opinion that there is no bad luck - you make your own choices therefore avalanches are avoidable. True perhaps - but its never that simple and to err is human ........................
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