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Avalanche transceiver search times during companion rescue

The aim of this study was to analyse the influence of voice navigation in a new generation of transceivers on the time and success rate of transceiver search in a simulated avalanche rescue scenario. The study demonstrated a wide inter-individual variation in total transceiver search times and total location time in participants without experience. Voice navigation did not result in a significant reduction of transceiver search times but led to a faster correction of a wrong initial search direction and improved the learning effect significantly in second trials. Voice navigation could possibly optimize performance in participants without prior experience in stressful situations.
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65 years of Swiss avalanche research reports now digitized

Lib4RI has completed the digitization of more than 700 historical snow and avalanche reports from the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF. These reports, published between 1938 and 2005, document decades of avalanche observations and snow research by researchers from Switzerland and around the world. These reports are now accessible to all in the institutional repository DORA. The collection ranges from early measurements of the snowpack to detailed reports on major avalanche events and offers an insight into both the history of snow science and the development of safety measures in alpine regions.
[Note that many, probably most, reports are in German.]
More ... (Phys.org)
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