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Title: Research and Development Pertaining to Steel Wire Rope Net Systems for the Prevention of Snow Avalanches
Date: 1986
Authors: Robert A. Thommen, Jr.
Description: Avalanches are most effectively prevented using support structures installed at the avalanche starting zone. All types of support structures were intr...
Object ID: issw-1986-201-206.pdf
Keywords: prevention, steel wire rope nets, control
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Title: Decision-Making as a Function of Avalanche Accident Prevention
Date: 1980
Authors: Douglas S. Fesler
Description: During the decade of the 1970's, 17 fatal avalanche-accidents, resulting in 24 deaths, occurred in Alaska. An investigation of these accidents reveale...
Object ID: issw-1980-128-138.pdf
Keywords: fatalities, avalanche accidents, accident prevention, avalanche victims
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Title: Avalanche Burials in the United States: 1967-1980
Date: 1980
Authors: Betsy R. Armstrong
Description: In 1976, Williams (1978) analyzed data from documented case histories of avalanche burials to determine chances of survival. With the addition of four...
Object ID: issw-1980-215-230.pdf
Keywords: fatalities, avalanche accidents, accident prevention, avalanche victims, avalanche burials
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