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the mountaineer found dead buried navarro in the avalanche of Sabocos

Sabocos image taken from a file photo. Marked with a red x where the mountain broke off the plate and yellow is the path of the avalanche. It was a western slope


found dead climber's body was buried Saturday in an avalanche of Sabocos, Panticosa

Sunday January 23, 2011 at 10:30 am

During Sunday morning's rescue bodies GREIM found the lifeless body of motnañero 34 years Navarre was buried him yesterday under the avalanche Sabocos returning from the canal west of its normal route. Speaking

Greim agents on the causes of the landslide, which has surprised us all, say that in the past 48 h had strong NE winds, which have carried a lot of snow to SW facing slopes and W where the plates are now so numerous. Yesterday we warned
plate in northern slopes, which are also at risk to be at such low temperatures, but we emphasize the guidelines Greim agents West (as in the case of the avalanche) and SW, as the most dangerous.

now no longer blows and slowly south and southwest sides, with the sun despite the cold, they will stabilize. No But the W shady, as in the case of the canal, shaded by the walls of Sabocos, remain unstable for several days.

Image taken from the Diario de Navarra (digital version) in which the avalanche is coming from the left, the channel W and reaches the central valley below leads to a funnel before the ski

Both mountaineers, a Logroño and Navarra, after climbing to the broker Sabocos Ice Ice Panticosa, began shortly after noon the descent route normal, the channel orientation West, back to the ski slopes, they broke a plate caused the avalanche. The Logroño managed to hold on to a block of ice and stay flat top, while Navarro went down with the flood in the middle to bottom, being buried at 1.5 m below the snow, very lumpy and hard.

Speaking with fellow Greim, warn of these new panels formed cno recent winds from the northeast, and are orientations fundamentalment NW, W and SW (and even in the South). These plates so weak cohesion have also been encouraged by the extremely low temperatures (-14 º C) to that height (2600m), which prevent the rounding of the granules of snow that remain in the form of cups and flats, which do not cohere.

So for the next few days, to be used extreme caution on the slopes west (NW, W and SW) and even in the southern slopes, although the latter, with sunshine on Sunday and Monday morning , they will stabilize faster.

I've always said that weather forecasts are sent to do just that, predicting what will happen, rather than inform "hindsight" of what has already happened.

Well, here I have to swallow those words and I can only warn, with the experience and information has given me GREIM of the dangers of those days.

this avalanche really caught us all by surprise, because we had more than 1 week without snow, and nobody could think that the wind could move the snow so old that we all thought it would be hard and well- lockable. Meteo France even spoke only of some old plates north slopes above 2,700 m. x mobilized only with heavy loads. They also did not provide these "new" plates formed in the last 24-48 hours.

Finally, the mountains and snow are a still uncertain that is never entirely control. Prudence. My condolences for the mountaineer and his family.

Jorge García-Dihinx