Avalanche!

A pocket guide to understanding and reducing risks from Avalanches

Robert Bolognesi (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

112 Seiten

2015
Cicerone Press (Verlag)
978-1-85284-473-8 (ISBN)

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A practical pocket guidebook to help you learn the skill of snow avalanche prediction. Aimed at all winter snow sports enthusiasts, you can learn the skill of avalanche prediction, understand and predict avalanches, evaluate the risks and reduce the dangers. The book includes a Nivotest designed to help quantify risks from avalanches.

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.

Robert Bolognesi, PhD, Polytechnic of Lausanne, graduate of the Institute of Alpine Geography, Grenoble, is a former researcher at the Federal Snow and Avalanche Research Centre, Davos, avalanche control practitioner, and founder of METEORISK, specialising in the amelioration of weather-related risks. Translation by Blyth Wright, head of the Scottish Avalanche Information Service.

Preface
Introduction

Avalanches
Classification
Personal Accounts

Risk Assessment
Definition of risk
Criteria for risk assessment
Assessing risk

Reducing the Risk
Reducing the possibility of avalanche release
Reducing potential damage

Conclusion
Using NivoTest
Glossary
Index
Useful addresses

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.11.2015
Zusatzinfo	colour photographs and maps
Verlagsort	Kendal
Sprache	englisch
Maße	100 x 155 mm
Gewicht	130 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ski- / Wintersport
ISBN-10	1-85284-473-6 / 1852844736
ISBN-13	978-1-85284-473-8 / 9781852844738
Zustand	Neuware