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- Title: OH, THE STORIES WE TELL ... OR NOT: A POST-AVALANCHE CASE STUDY FROM THE GODMOTHER COULOIR
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Tove I. Dahl
- Description: How can we facilitate learning through the sharing of difficult experiences for the greater good of the community? This study examines stories told by...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O12.4.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accident, story, storytelling, situated learning, resilience, learning
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- Title: LEARNING FROM AVALANCHE ACCIDENTS: THE IMPACT OF THE WILSON GLADE PUBLIC ACCIDENT DEBRIEF
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Laura M.D. Maguire, Dave Richards, Drew Hardesty, Paige Pagnucco, Morgan E. Reynolds
- Description: On February 6, 2021, two backcountry skiing groups totaling eight people converged on Wilson Glade in the central Wasatch Mountains of northern Utah. ...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O3.1.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accident, education, human factors, behavioral change
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- Title: A CASE-STUDY OF HIGH LOAD HUMAN-TRIGGERED AVALANCHE ACCIDENT IN L’ESTANYó (ANDORRA): LESSONS LEARNED AFTER CONDITIONS ANALYSIS
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Guillem Martín, Lucia Rivero, Anna Albalat, Aina Margalef, Laura Trapero, Olivier Jimenez, Toni Molne, Gemma Sinfreu
- Description: Two different groups ok skiers planned to descent the south-west face of Estanyó peak at 2.550 m altitude. They had different objectives, the first g...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_P10.16.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accident, avalanche matrix, avalanche problems, persistent weak layers.
- View additional details about A CASE-STUDY OF HIGH LOAD HUMAN-TRIGGERED AVALANCHE ACCIDENT IN L’ESTANYó (ANDORRA): LESSONS LEARNED AFTER CONDITIONS ANALYSIS
- Title: BURIED ALIVE: A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF AVALANCHE SURVIVORS’ LEARNING EXPERIENCE AFTER AN AVALANCHE ACCIDENT
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Audun Hetland
- Description: Avalanche terrain offers a challenging learning environment due to the potentially misleading and often absent feedback from the terrain itself. This ...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_O11.8.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accident, decision-making, learning, experiential learning
- View additional details about BURIED ALIVE: A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF AVALANCHE SURVIVORS’ LEARNING EXPERIENCE AFTER AN AVALANCHE ACCIDENT
- Title: REGISTERING AVALANCHE ACCIDENTS IN EUROPE IN THE FRAMEWORK OF EAWS
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Anne Dufour, Emma Barfod, Norbert Lanzanasto, Tamara Tschanhenz, Benjamin Zweifel
- Description: The main objective of the European Avalanche Warning Services (EAWS) is to prevent loss of lives and damages due to avalanches. Considering that a cle...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_P11.4.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accident, database, fatalities, standard
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- Title: ANALYSIS OF 50 YEARS OF FATAL AVALANCHE ACCIDENTS IN THE CATALAN PYRENEES (1970-2020)
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Glòria Martí, Ricard Cabré, Íñigo Soteras, Ramón Arqué, Carles García-Sellés, Santiago Manguan
- Description: The creation of The Mountain Accident Observatory in Catalonia allowed to bring together different professionals (rescue teams, doctors and avalanche ...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.17.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accident, fatal accident, mortality, avalanche danger
- View additional details about ANALYSIS OF 50 YEARS OF FATAL AVALANCHE ACCIDENTS IN THE CATALAN PYRENEES (1970-2020)
- Title: CHARACTERISTICS AND TRENDS OF AVALANCHE FATALITIES IN JAPAN (1991-2020)
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Azusa Degawa
- Description: There have been 179 fatal avalanche accidents in Japan over the past 30 years (1991-2020), resulting in 274 fatalities. Of the fatal accidents, 85% oc...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.15.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accident, avalanche accident statistics, mountain recreational activities
- View additional details about CHARACTERISTICS AND TRENDS OF AVALANCHE FATALITIES IN JAPAN (1991-2020)
- Title: Reanalysis of recent avalanche accidents in Val d’Aran, Central Pyrenees: a communication challenge for different user groups
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Jordi Gavaldà , Ivan Moner, Montse Bacardit
- Description: For centers issuing avalanche advisories nowadays, communicating with the end user has become a bigger issue than the analysis of the danger itself. A...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O13.2.pdf
- Keywords: pyrenees, avalanche accident, communication challenges, human factors
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- Title: SWOT analysis in management and danger of snow avalanches in Spain
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Jon Apodaka, Irati Zuluaga
- Description: The impacts of avalanches in Spain, including deaths, are concentrated in recreational and mountain sports activities, as well as in mountain and ski ...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P15.17.pdf
- Keywords: accident, rescue, education, pyrenees, risk management, spain
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- Title: Freeride Vs. Freedead: case study of an avalanche accident with a chaotic rescue in the Pyrennes
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Jon Apodaka
- Description: As if a "Boeing 747" was spoken, today there are many practitioners of winter mountain activities that carry their own black boxes, installed with the...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O16.1.pdf
- Keywords: accident, rescue, education, pyrenees, risk management
- View additional details about Freeride Vs. Freedead: case study of an avalanche accident with a chaotic rescue in the Pyrennes
- Title: Triggered Avalanche - a Case Study From the Italian Alps
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Igor Chiambretti, Bernardino Chiaia, Barbara Frigo
- Description: The 6th February 2014, two parties of 25 Heli-skiers (6 guides and 19 clients) and 3 snow observers were on activity on a large bowl at 2800 m elevati...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O8.02.pdf
- Keywords: heli ski; triggered avalanche; accident case study
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- Title: The Longyearbyen Fatal Avalanche Accident 19th December 2015, Svalbard - Lessons Learned From Avalanche Rescue Inside a Settlement
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Martin Indreiten, Christian Svarstad
- Description: A fatal avalanche hit houses in the city of Longyearbyen early Saturday morning the 19th of December 2015 after an extreme winter storm event. The ava...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O16.01.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accident, urban avalanche, rescue
- View additional details about The Longyearbyen Fatal Avalanche Accident 19th December 2015, Svalbard - Lessons Learned From Avalanche Rescue Inside a Settlement
- Title: Forecasting the Fatal Longyearbyen Avalanche. Possibilities and Challenges
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Christian Jaedicke, Erik Hestnes, Steinar Bakkehøi, Torgeir Mørk, Kjetil Brattlien
- Description: One of the main questions after the fatal avalanche in Longyearbyen in December 2015, where two persons perished and eleven houses were destroyed, was...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O16.04.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accident, forecasting, storm weather, wind measurements
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- Title: The Svalbard Fatal Accident 19th December 2015 – the Acute Phase
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Kjetil Brattlien, Erik Hestnes, Ulrik Domaas
- Description: The Svalbard fatal avalanche caused massive destruction when it hit part of the village Longyearbyen Saturday morning at the start of the Christmas ho...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.22.pdf
- Keywords: svalbard, fatal accident
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- Title: Survey of Avalanche Professionals: an Institutional and Personal Analysis of Accident Causes
- Date: 2014-09-29
- Authors: Jerry Johnson, Jordy Hendrikx, Pascal Haegeli, Scott Savage
- Description: Avalanche professionals routinely work in high-risk environments where avalanche in-volvements are a day-to-day possibility. Despite best efforts to p...
- Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P3.17.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche professionals, accident causes, institutional factors
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