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Avalanche security, search and rescue equipment (left to right): avalanche airbag system, probe (folded), shovel, avalanche transceiver. Portable (collapsible) probes can be extended to probe into the snow to locate the exact location of a victim at several yards / metres in depth.
An avalanche transceiver or avalanche beacon is a type of emergency locator beacon, a radio transceiver (a transmitter and receiver in one unit) operating at 457 kHz for the purpose of finding people buried under snow. They are widely carried by skiers, particularly back country skiers for use in case a skier is buried by an avalanche.
An avalanche swept up skiers at Lake Tahoe's largest ski resort on Jan. 10, 2024, as a 150-foot-wide sheet of snow slid down a mountain slope into a pile 10 feet deep.
Avalanche probes are collapsible poles about 9–10 feet (2.7–3.0 m) in length that are used to probe the snow for buried avalanche victims. In an avalanche, a beacon will indicate the location of a victim to within a meter or two, and the probe will pinpoint the victim's location.
The Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) wrote in a report that the 57-year-old was likely buried for more than four hours before he was found. The avalanche was 800 feet wide and traveled ...
The avalanche carried the older brother and his snowmobile about 100 yards and through a group of trees, partially burying the machine and completely burying the older brother. ... and a probe ...