Nov. 3, 2025

ep 60 Avalanche, gunshot and car deaths.

ep 60 Avalanche, gunshot and car deaths.
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ep 60 Avalanche, gunshot and car deaths.

1. Sunny School-back Monday.
2. Avalanche in Dolomites kills 5 climbers.
3. Cycling Champion Cindy Morvan shot dead.
4. Car accident kills 3, injures 3 teenagers.
5. Electric snowcat in Georgia.
6. Fondue Fire.
7. Skiing in Jeans.
8. Gender Testing.
9. Pass on your phone in Zermatt.
10. British Game Week.

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Children are back at school again today, and only a few weeks until our lifts open.

Am always trying to warn people about the risks of avalanches.

Sadly 5 German climbers were killed in the Dolomites on Saturday.

France’s cycling champion Cindy Morvan was killed in what appears to be a murder suicide.

If you fancy skiing in Georgia, they now have electric snowcats.

Careful if you have a fondue….. don’t pack away until completely cold…….a manager is being prosecuted for negligence after a huge fire in Switzerland.

Jackson Hole is looking to beat it’s own World Record for denim clad skiers…….

Ski in Jeans Day

The US are gender testing women prior to the Winter Olympics. No Y chromosomes will get on the team.

Zermatt passes are going digital.... make sure your phone battery is strong.

British Game Week……….the wild animals rather than toys or rugby.

00:11 - Sunny School-back Monday.

00:23 - Avalanche in Dolomites kills 5 climbers

01:04 - Cycling Champion Cindy Morvan shot dead

01:23 - Car accident kills 3, injures 3 teenagers

01:51 - Electric snowcat in Georgia

02:06 - Fondue Fire

02:55 - Skiing in Jeans

04:09 - Gender Testing

04:32 - Pass on your phone in Zermatt

05:10 - British Game Week

SUNSHINE !

Children back at school will put a smile on your face !

And

We have our art class again this evening.

MONDAY is a GOOD day !

 

You will hear a lot of avalanche talk

Over the winter

In the hope that being aware

Will make you wary

And save lives.

 

Sad to have to include this news

On Saturday

Five German climbers were killed

By an avalanche in the Dolomites.

Including a seventeen year old girl

And her father.

 

 There will of course be an investigation

Questions always include

If new snow was on an unstable base

Or if the temperature

And time of day

Was a lethal factor.

 

As you know

Skiing off piste

In the afternoon

Is frowned upon. 

 

Two more bits of bad news

 

Thirty nine year old

French cycling champion

Mother of two

Cindy Morvan was shot dead

Before the apparent murderer

Committed suicide.

 

Something that happens

Every year

In every country…….

 

This time In the Haute Savoie

Five friends having Friday night fun

Their car hits a tree

The seventeen year old driver

And front seat passenger were killed.

The three other fifteen year old

passengers

Are all badly injured.

I don’t know if it was the driver’s fault

It could have been mechanical

Or a problem on the road

 

Feel terrible for all the families and friends.

 

Do you fancy skiing in Georgia

The Georgia near Russia

Not back in the USA

 

They now have electric snowcats…..

Seven hundred horse powere

can take 12 skiers, or boarders

 

We all like a fondue….

Almost obligatory part of a ski holiday !

Be careful………

One caused the fire

That gutted the Swiss Glacier 3000 restaurant

In 20 22.

The 40 year old former catering manager

will appear in court next week

charged with negligence

 

She wasn’t the one who put the cooker away

Without turning it off

 

The kit was new and

The staff member who stacked it

Hadn’t been properly trained………

 

It was a big fire……

Affecting the self-service restaurant,

The main restaurant

And lift machinery.

 

At least no-one was injured.

The newly refurbished restaurant
opened two years later.

At a cost of 30 million swiss Francs

Bet it is beautiful !

 

Do you ever ski in Jeans ?

Did you ever ski in Jeans ?

 

Three good reasons not to…………

Not waterproof

Not warm

Tricky with ski boots……

 

Jackson Hole’s

Ski in Jeans Day

Has become an annual event……..

The 3rd is at the Beginning of December

And it is hoping to break its own

World record

For the number of people skiing in denim

 

Not just about looking cool…

Discount lift passes and rental prices

Music, prizes, drinks and a

Mechanical bull….

 

A friend of mine skied in Jeans

Once.

His first day ever on skis….

 

He wasn’t going to wear

Uncool salopettes……..

 

Got on the chairlift.

Didn’t realise you had to ski off………

Went around

Through the barrier

Stopped the lift

Had people shouting at him

 

Instead of admitting

The obvious…..

He continued to be ‘cool’

So jumped off…………

Into a very very deep

Mound of loose snow………

 

Had to be dug out………

 

Not sure how he got down

As

these were his first turns on skis……..

 

 

 Gender testing…

The US Olympic and Paralymic Committee

Has begun testing female athletes

Before the Italian Olympics.

It is to protect women’s sports.

The only fair and transparent way.

Relying on science and biological facts.

No-one with a Y chromosome can compete as a woman.

 

Bit of a dearth ……….can’t celebrate Housewives, sandwiches or traffic directors so it will have to be Great British Game week………..partly because, despite being British, I have NO IDEA what it is

Or didn’t until I looked it up

For YOUR benefit

 

Was thinking football

Rugby

Tennis

Golf

Or monopoly……………

 

Maybe something like the games weekend

The Vie Val d’Is hosted in September

WRONG !

Dead wild animals !

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Lots of healthy advantages over supermarket meats

Lean

High in protein

Low in fat

With a bonus low carbon footprint.

 

See you tomorrow.