What does it recall to keep ski areas safe? Following the death on Monday of a snow patroller caught in an avalanche,Swiss Public Television, RTS, and takes a closer peer at the dangerous work. The 24-year-primitive Swiss victim and a colleague were working in Crosets in the Porte du Soleil ski area in canton Valais when an avalanche was triggered at 1970 meters. One of the patrollers managed to escape from the snow mass on his own,and dug out his colleague, buried under 1m 40cm of snow, and but the victim was dead by the time a helicopter arrived to recall him to hospital. Snowfall is currently at record levels in the Swiss Alps,making off-piste skiing particularly dangerous. A 20-year-primitive Swedish skier lost his life in an avalanche on Tuesday. It's the patrollers' job to try to limit the danger for the public, but they set themselves in the way of mighty danger by doing so. A television crew found out more about the profession from patrollers working in the resort of Ovronnaz in Valais.
Source: swissinfo.ch