Lawinenwarndienst Tirol

The Tyrolean Avalanche Warning Service has polished up some of its additional services and optimized them for use with mobile devices. The situation report is now also available via WhatsApp.

In addition to the avalanche app from the Tyrolean LWD, there is now a quiz app from the same company with which you can playfully improve your knowledge on the subject of avalanches and snowpack structure.

Rudi Mair and Patrick Nairz are the avalanche warning experts from the Tyrolean Avalanche Warning Service. In their bestselling avalanche book "Avalanche. Die 10 entscheidenden Gefahrenmuster erkennen", the two avalanche experts present a new, complementary approach to avoiding avalanche accidents. When analyzing hundreds of mostly tragic avalanche accidents, Rudi and Patrick discovered that most accidents occur in typical, recurring hazard patterns. They therefore developed 10 typical, particularly accident-prone and frequent hazard patterns. Recognizing these avalanche hazard patterns should help winter sports enthusiasts to behave with appropriate caution – and thus avoid accidents. Here we present the 10 key hazard patterns in brief.

Yet another book about avalanche awareness, some will think when they hear about the new avalanche book by the two avalanche warning experts Rudi Mair and Patrick Nairz. That was certainly my first thought when I heard about the book. But when I read the book "Avalanche. Die 10 entscheidenden Gefahrenmuster erkennen" it quickly becomes clear that the approach to the subject of avalanches and avalanche risk in this book is completely different for the first time!