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Item: Avalanche Analysis and Management in the Ski Resort Rosa Khutor Regarding the 2014 Sochi Olympics Games

• • Title: Avalanche Analysis and Management in the Ski Resort Rosa Khutor Regarding the 2014 Sochi Olympics Games

    Proceedings: Proceedings, 2012 International Snow Science Workshop, Anchorage, Alaska

    Authors:

    • Fanny Bourjaillat  [ Engineerisk, consulting company, Chambery, France ]
    • Philippe Berthet-Rambaud  [ Engineerisk, consulting company, Chambery, France ]
    • Stefan Margreth  [ WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos, Switzerland ]
    • Leonid Andreev  [ Avalanche Service, Rosa Khutor Ski resort, Russia ]
    • Alexander Boyko  [ Avalanche Service, Rosa Khutor Ski resort, Russia ]
    • Jean-Luc Vallier  [ Mountain manager, Compagnie des Alpes, Rosa Khutor Ski resort, Russia ]

    Date: 2012

    Abstract: The 2014 winter Olympics games will take place in Russia near Sochi in the Caucasus Mountains. Several sites have been retained there: both close to the Black Sea coast and in the mountains near Krasnaya Polyana village. The site interesting to this presentation is “Rosa Khutor”. This newly developed ski resort both by Russian with the cooperation of the French Compagnie des Alpes will host the alpine ski, freestyle and slopestyle competitions. About 15 lifts are planned for 2014 (including gondolas, chairlifts and carpets) to provide the access to 80 km of ski slopes. Five years ago, there was almost nothing at this place except a National Park; it was totally virgin, a wild space consisting of large forests interrupted partly by avalanche tracks. Everything has been built from scratch. Only one ski resort exists there since 1993: Alpika Service with five chairlifts west of Rosa Khutor. This was the experience core to the development of the new modern ski areas: Rosa Khutor, GornayaKarussel and Laura. Rosa Khutor is a challenging zone with many large and steep slopes. This terrain is near the Black Sea and receives extreme precipitation that can lead to large and dangerous avalanche cycles. Before the construction of the ski area, the area was used by heliski operations. No avalanche hazard maps or documentation about the local avalanche history were available; so that everything had to be done about avalanche hazard management.

    Object ID: issw-2012-134-141.pdf

    Language of Article: English

    Presenter(s): Unknown

    Keywords: olympics games, avalanche study, avalanche management

    Page Number(s): 134-141

    Subjects: avalanche management program risk assessment

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