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  2. Avalanche transceiver - Wikipedia

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    Digital avalanche transceiver with LED display. 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.

  3. Avalanche forecasters try to curb deaths as skiers and ... - AOL

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    He used a saw to isolate a column of snow and then repeatedly hit the top of the column with his shovel, increasing the force until a slab of snow broke about 2 1/2 feet (76 centimeters) from the top.

  4. Avalanche rescue - Wikipedia

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    Avalanche cords were popular before beacons became available, and while cords were thought to be effective markers there was never any proof of their effectiveness. In the 1970s Melchior Schild of the Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF) reviewed 30 years of Swiss avalanche accidents and rescues from 1944/45 to 1973/74.

  5. Five skiers killed in French Alps avalanches - AOL

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    Five skiers were killed in two separate avalanches in the French Alps on Wednesday, local officials have confirmed. One torrent of snow came in Val-Cenis, in the south-eastern Savoie region ...

  6. Man snowmobiling with friend is buried and killed in Idaho ...

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    A 54-year-old was snowmobiling with a friend in Idaho when he was buried in an avalanche and killed, officials said. Lance J. Gidley, 54, of Sandpoint, was caught in the avalanche at about 1:30 p ...

  7. Watch as massive avalanche silently buries snowmobilers in ...

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  8. Mountain Locator Unit - Wikipedia

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    A Mountain Locator Unit or MLU was a radio transmitter for use by mountain climbers as an emergency locator beacon when the wearer needs rescue.. The MLUs were simple radio beacons, and thus required search and rescuers to use traditional radio direction finding (RDF or DF) equipment to obtain a bearing, but not a precise location, to the beacon.

  9. 2 killed in New Year's Eve avalanches in Montana, Colorado

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    The avalanche was about 2-4 feet (61-122 centimeters) deep, 500 feet (152 meters) wide and 600 feet (183 meters) long. It broke on weak snow near the bottom of the snowpack.