EMERGENCY RISK REDUCTION

The season is here again, when the local news gives a tragic story of another death from an avalanche. As I write this,  the hourly news from my trusty radio just reported two deaths in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Avalanches kill more than 150 people throughout the world every year.  Here in British Columbia, the toll averages 11 deaths annually. The 2008-09 winter was especially tragic, with […]