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Ski coach dies in Salzburg avalanche
A 41-year-old ski instructor and guide was killed in an avalanche yesterday (Thurs) in the Obertauern mountains in Salzburg’s Lungau region, police said.
A mass of snow measuring 300x600 metres broke loose on the Kesselspitz and buried the man under three metres of snow.
The victim was guiding two Lower Austrians on a ski tour when the avalanche struck. The three of them had agreed they would descend the treacherous slope one by one. The guide went first and triggered an avalanche after just 50 metres.
The Lower Austrians notified rescuers and tried unsuccessfully to find the guide once the snow had come to a stop. Rescuers choppered in with dogs and quickly found the guide’s body, but he was already dead.
The danger of avalanches was very high and off-piste winter skiers should take extra care, an avalanche expert warned on Wednesday this week.
Klaus Wagenbichler from the Salzburg mountain rescue service said that a combination of heavy snow in the past few days and rising temperatures had created perfect conditions for many avalanches.
He urged skiers to pay extra attention to the daily avalanche danger report by the provincial government and to "behave sensibly and take maximum security measures in current conditions" since the slightest pressure on snow, particularly on steep slopes, could trigger an avalanche.
The avalanche danger was at level four on Wednesday in many areas of the province.
The expert’s warning came shortly after the death of a woman in the Obertauern mountains in Salzburg on Tuesday morning.
Salzburg mountain rescue service spokeswoman Maria Riedler said the woman’s male companion had triggered an avalanche that had completely buried her under metres of snow.
It took mountain rescuers with dogs an hour and a half to find the woman since she had failed to turn on the sensor in her backpack. She was already dead by the time they dug her body out. Her companion was only slightly injured.
Statistics show that an average of 26 people die in avalanches in the Austrian Alps every year.
Austrian Times
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