Avalanche in French Alps at Tigne, no on injured, just shocked.

Avalanche à Tignes : vingt-cinq personnes ont été vues par les secours, mais aucune n’est blessée. Five people were seen by first aid medics, but nobody injured.

Une avalanche a traversé, mardi, une piste de ski. La coulée de neige n’a fait aucune victime.

An avalanche cross the slopes on Tuesday, today. The flow of snow caused no casualties.

Une avalanche s\'est produite dans la station de sports d\'hiver de Tignes (Savoie), le 7 mars 2017.
Une avalanche s’est produite dans la station de sports d’hiver de Tignes (Savoie), le 7 mars 2017. (FRANCEINFO) (Telesieges = Ski-lifts.)

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Une avalanche a frappé, mardi 7 mars dans la matinée, la station de sports d’hiver de Tignes (Savoie). La coulée de neige, qui n’a fait aucune victime, s’est produite vers 9h50 sur une piste ouverte au public, la piste bleue “Carline”, située sur le domaine de Val Claret. Personne n’a été enseveli et tous les secouristes sont redescendus, selon des journalistes de France Télévisions présents sur place.

The avalanche hit the ski station at Tignes. The snow flow, at 2,600 metres altitude, which caused no casualties, happened on a blue slope open to the public, “Carline” in Val Claret. Nobody was engulfed and all safety skiers got down safely according to local French TV reporters.

Vingt-cinq personnes se sont présentées aux secours, “plus ou moins choquées, mais personne n’a été blessé”, a expliqué le sous-préfet d’Albertville, Nicolas Martrenchard. “Quatre skieurs ont été impactés par l’effet de souffle”, a-t-il ajouté.

Five people visited first aid “more or less shocked, but without injuries” explained the assistant of police at Albertville.

Les conditions météorologiques n’étaient pas bonnes mardi matin, de nombreuses pistes du domaine étaient fermées, ce qui explique qu’il y avait potentiellement plus de monde que d’habitude sur cette piste bleue. De très importantes chutes de neige ont eu lieu ces derniers jours, et le risque d’avalanche est élevé ce mardi, estimé à 4 sur une échelle de 5.

The weather conditions were not good on Tuesday morning and many slopes were closed, as would be normal for blue slopes. Very heavy snow-falls took place over the last few days and the risk of avalanche was listed today, estimated at 4 out of five.

The image below gives an idea of the bad weather conditions at the time of the avalanche.

Une autre avalanche près de Tignes avait fait quatre morts le 13 février 2017. Une coulée de neige large de 400 m s’était déclenchée dans le secteur hors piste de Tovière, à quelques dizaines de mètres seulement des remontées mécaniques de la station de Tignes.

A previous avalanche, close to Tignes caused four deaths on 13 February 2017. A snow flow of 400 metres was launched away the ski-ing slopes at Toviere, within tens of metres of the ski lifts to Tignes.

Avalanche à Tignes : “Le risque zéro n’existe pas en montagne, même sur les pistes sécurisées”. Authorities remind ski-ers there is “never zero risk on secure ski slopes”

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Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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