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Title: Avalanche Fatalities in California's Sierra Nevada, Winters 1987-2008
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Randall Osterhuber
Description: This paper analyzes the 17 avalanche fatalities in the Sierra Nevada of California during 22 winters, 1987 through 2008. The avalanche deaths are eval...
Object ID: P__8040.pdf
Keywords: avalanche fatality, avalanche death
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Title: The Human Experience of Avalanche Rescue
Date: 1994
Authors: Gail L. Denton
Description: Avalanches ate a matter of physics. Being caught in an avalanche is a matter of personal intelligence, skill and luck (what we refer to back in our pa...
Object ID: issw-1994-431-438.pdf
Keywords: rescue, avalanche victim, death, human experience
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Title: The Alpine Meadows Avalanche Trial: Conflicting Viewpoints of the Expert Witnesses
Date: 1986
Authors: Dick Penniman
Description: In 1982, an unexpected avalanche at the Alpine Meadows ski area killed seven people, and the ski area was subsequently sued for wrongful death. During...
Object ID: issw-1986-189-194.pdf
Keywords: unexpected, fatalities, sued, wrongful death, testimony
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