You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, MPEG-4 DST, MP3, Shorten, FLAC, MPEG-4 SLS, WAV, MPEG4 (compression GZ, ZIP, JAR, BZ, RAR, TAR.7Z, AZW4)
Total pages original book: 112
Includes a PDF summary of 11 pages
Duration of the summary (audio): 8M34S (2.2 MB)
Description or summary of the audiobook: This guidebook, aimed at winter sports enthusiasts and professionals, can help you learn the skill of avalanche prediction. The skill of avalanche prediction is both an art and a science. Mountaineers, skiers, climbers, snowboarders, snowshoers, walkers and all who love winter and snow sports need to learn that skill. Translated by the late Blyth Wright, the guide draws on the expertise of a wide range of professionals involved in mountain activities, as well as first-hand accounts of avalanche scenes from witnesses and survivors, to help you understand and predict avalanches, evaluate the risks and reduce the dangers. This practical, pocket-sized guide is for use on the mountain and during planning.The guide also includes a NivoTest designed to help quantify the risks from avalanches.
Other categories, genre or collection: Weather, Winter Sports