This is the english version of the german „Lawinen know-how, der Bergführer rät …“. Every year people are seriously injured or killed in avalanches. As mountain users we have responsibility to minimise the risk presented by snow and the mountains. This book aims to provide the reader with an introduction to the fundamentals of avalanche awareness. The solid, straightforward information, from professionals who spend their lives in the mountainbs, is presented in a form that is easy to understand and memorise. (extract foreword Brian Farquharson)
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