Swiss Avalanches Kills Five!!

[Larry J. Kosch]

Sounds like a really bad snow season for skiing/climbing in the Swiss Alps:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/...ies+(News+-+Top+Stories)&utm_content=My+Yahoo

What's really bad was that the first avalanche hit a group of skiers. Then a rescue party got caught in a second avalanche. One of the people, an Englishman, was rescued after being buried under eight feet of snow! After the second avalanche, they mounted a massive rescue operation with eight helicopters and 100 rescuers.

Any comments or thoughts??

 

[John Olexa]

Of all the aspects of mother nature, an avalanche scares me most of all for some reason.