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"Ace" wrote in message ... On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:00:40 +0100, "Simon Brown" wrote: From www.tagesanzeiger.ch - a summary translated by myself. "Snowboarder in Italien nach Zusammenstoss mit Skifahrer gestorben" BELLUNO - A 38 year-old snowboarder died after a collision with a skier in the Dolomites. The skier left the injured snowboarder lying in the snow without offering any assistance. The snowboarder was rammed by the skier who was travelling at a very high speed. I find this a bit like the fairly frequent "biker down" threads on ukrm. I mean, was it anybody I know, or you know? If not, what's the big deal? I mean, it's not _that_ unusual an occurence. I suppose, like the biker threads, it's a bit like the, 'if not for the grace of god' thing. I'd just like to think that if somone wiped me out they'd stop to check if they could do anything to help. A. D. |
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Hi cupra
I suffered a few near misses from people on the edge of control throughout the Sella Ronda this Xmas I do not really like prejudices, but my experiences with skiing in italian resorts, which are visited much by it italian skiiers, a If there is a queue at the lift it is dangerous to ski the piste. I never had that many really dangerous close-to-accidents with people who could not ski, but did a race down the piste, while talking to a mobile phone (or similar nice behaviours...). New year 2001 in Campitello we decided to do only backcountry tours, though we had bought four day ressort tickets - the avalanche risk was not that high as the risk to be injured on the piste. Florian |
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BTW he died of head injuries, I don't know if he was wearing a helmet.
-- Simon Brown www.hb9drv.ch "Simon Brown" wrote in message ... Maybe there will be more info in the Italian press / websites. |
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"Ace" wrote in message
... I find this a bit like the fairly frequent "biker down" threads on ukrm. I mean, was it anybody I know, or you know? If not, what's the big deal? I mean, it's not _that_ unusual an occurence. Dieing like this is rather unusual I think - at least death through collision doesn't get reported very much. Also we (I) often rant (used to rant) about snowboarders. -- Simon Brown www.hb9drv.ch |
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Simon Brown wrote:
"Ace" wrote in message ... I find this a bit like the fairly frequent "biker down" threads on ukrm. I mean, was it anybody I know, or you know? If not, what's the big deal? I mean, it's not _that_ unusual an occurence. Dieing like this is rather unusual I think - at least death through collision doesn't get reported very much. Also we (I) often rant (used to rant) about snowboarders. In my experience, there seems to be an increase in the skill of boarders over the past 2/3 years (people are actually taking lessons these days). I rarely see as many Boarder-on-Skier collisions these days as I used to, whereas the anecdotal evidence of my last trip saw a few Skier-on-Skier and a couple of Skier-on-Boarder collisions but no Boarder-on-Skier. (this is not a troll to stoke up the old boarder/skier tensions btw!) |
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On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:52:28 -0000, " cupra"
wrote: Ace wrote: On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:00:40 +0100, "Simon Brown" wrote: From www.tagesanzeiger.ch - a summary translated by myself. "Snowboarder in Italien nach Zusammenstoss mit Skifahrer gestorben" BELLUNO - A 38 year-old snowboarder died after a collision with a skier in the Dolomites. The skier left the injured snowboarder lying in the snow without offering any assistance. The snowboarder was rammed by the skier who was travelling at a very high speed. I find this a bit like the fairly frequent "biker down" threads on ukrm. I mean, was it anybody I know, or you know? If not, what's the big deal? I mean, it's not _that_ unusual an occurence. The day a death on the slopes is treated as 'not a big deal' is the day I think I'll hang up my boots..... Do you drive a car? -- Champ |
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On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:00:40 +0100, "Simon Brown"
wrote: From www.tagesanzeiger.ch - a summary translated by myself. "Snowboarder in Italien nach Zusammenstoss mit Skifahrer gestorben" BELLUNO - A 38 year-old snowboarder died after a collision with a skier in the Dolomites. The skier left the injured snowboarder lying in the snow without offering any assistance. The snowboarder was rammed by the skier who was travelling at a very high speed. He would have been much safer off piste :-) -- Champ |
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Champ wrote:
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:52:28 -0000, " cupra" wrote: Ace wrote: On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:00:40 +0100, "Simon Brown" wrote: From www.tagesanzeiger.ch - a summary translated by myself. "Snowboarder in Italien nach Zusammenstoss mit Skifahrer gestorben" BELLUNO - A 38 year-old snowboarder died after a collision with a skier in the Dolomites. The skier left the injured snowboarder lying in the snow without offering any assistance. The snowboarder was rammed by the skier who was travelling at a very high speed. I find this a bit like the fairly frequent "biker down" threads on ukrm. I mean, was it anybody I know, or you know? If not, what's the big deal? I mean, it's not _that_ unusual an occurence. The day a death on the slopes is treated as 'not a big deal' is the day I think I'll hang up my boots..... Do you drive a car? I do, out of necessity. |
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(this is not a troll to stoke up the old boarder/skier tensions btw!) As if they needed stoking up! IMHO they'd cut a whole load of accidents by legislating against snowboarder picnics! It seems as if every corner you go around there's a half dozen of em spreading the table cloth out! Its sometimes difficult to jump over them if you're not going fast enough! On a serious note though... hit-and-run on the piste is completely unforgiveable but just another sign of the IAJ (I'm Alright Jack) culture of today. IME some nationalities are more courteous and helpful (Dutch for instance?) than others. Why is that? |
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John Ricketts wrote:
snip (this is not a troll to stoke up the old boarder/skier tensions btw!) As if they needed stoking up! IMHO they'd cut a whole load of accidents by legislating against snowboarder picnics! It seems as if every corner you go around there's a half dozen of em spreading the table cloth out! Its sometimes difficult to jump over them if you're not going fast enough! lol On a serious note though... hit-and-run on the piste is completely unforgiveable but just another sign of the IAJ (I'm Alright Jack) culture of today. IME some nationalities are more courteous and helpful (Dutch for instance?) than others. Why is that? IME it's down the the individual - I've met some very friendly and helpful Germans/Italians/French and so on, as well as some downright rude ones! |
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