Learn essential avalanche skills with a Cicerone mini-guide
Avalanche!
Understand and reduce risks from Avalanches by Robert Bolognesi
This practical pocket-sized guidebook can help you learn the skill of snow avalanche prediction. Aimed at all winter snow sports enthusiasts, you can learn the skill of avalanche prediction, understand and predict avalanches, evaluate the risks and reduce the dangers. The book includes a Nivotest designed to help quantify risks from avalanches. More...
Buy from Cicerone
Seasons
Winter.Difficulty
Aimed at those involved in snow and winter sports, from enthusiasts to professionals.Introduction
Avalanches
Classification
Personal Accounts
Risk Assessment
Definition of risk
Criteria for risk assessment
Assessing risk
Reducing the Risk
Reducing the possibility of avalanche release
Reducing potential damage
Conclusion
Using NivoTest
Glossary
Index
Useful addresses
Reader's Photos
Want to see your photos here? Find out how...
Related blog posts
Cicerone Hill Skills: Avalanche - understand and reduce the risks
New to the outdoors, or just want to brush up your hill skills? Then Cicerone’s techniques read more…
Winter Climbing in the Cairngorms
Hot off the press, (or should that be cold?) is the latest edition of Winter Climbs in the read more…
Stay safe on the hills
In recent years the Mountain Rescue service has seen a huge increase in people taking to the hills read more…
