Yeah, there’s that danger of being caught in a slide, too, but we often forget that ski patrollers are wielding dynamite. As if to underline that danger, in the Alps last week a 54 year old ski patroller was killed setting a charge during avalanche control work. The patroller and his colleague had loaded a rocket into a launcher and were removing the safeties when the charge blew without warning. Just a week earlier, at another Swiss Alps resort, two patrollers were injured when a charge exploded inside a launcher.

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