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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is absolutely davastating! my thoughts and prayers are with the families right now.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62dke15357o

Can you imagine heading out for a day of fun and then, THIS??[/quote]

What is an "accidental" avalanche? [/quote]

Versus a deliberately triggered avalanche. [/quote]

But this was just an avalanche. It wasn't an "accidental avalanche." Shit just happens. There was no need whatsoever for the weird modifier. [/quote]

Safety is never accidental. [/quote]
It was this time. The male survivors were held back by their lack of skill and in one case struggling with a binding. They accidentally weren’t bunched directly in the path of the avalanche as the guides had the women. From that point on, led mostly by the electrician is the impression the NYT article leaves, they made good choices in rescue and survival. But their initial survival was entirely accidental.[/quote]
No it wasn’t.

The phrase is Safety is No Accident.

None of them were thinking Safety, by virtue that they were out in severe avalanche and white out conditions.

[b]The 2 solo men and 1 guide weren’t spared due to being extra safety-minded (they weren’t safety minded at all). One just had bad gear and was slowing the other two down[/b].[/quote]
That was exactly what I said in response to the PP who wrote [i]Safety is never accidental[/i]
You are rewording exactly what I said- their safety and survival were accidental. [/quote]
Lol.

They never had safety, accidentally or intentionally. The whole time.

They happened to live through the lack of safety and lack of being safe. But they never “had safety.”

Were they literally “safe” from that one avalanche at that one moment? Not really either. [/quote]

None of us are safe right now. If it helps pps to focus instead on a ill-fated group of backcountry skiers, let them. [/quote]

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