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Something like Chamonix, France for many other extreme summer & winter mountain sports (downhill MTB including) then. People keep dying 'en masse' there, long
by jajko 2y ago
Something like Chamonix, France for many other extreme summer & winter mountain sports (downhill MTB including) then.
People keep dying 'en masse' there, long term average is 60 per year in Mont Blanc range alone, but this includes all activities so heart attack during pleasant walk is there too. They compare it to whole US rockies in terms of mortality, not sure if it still holds. If folks focused purely on statistics whole place would be banned ad infinum due to world's easiest access to extreme terrain, luckily French folks have a different attitude to risks in what they consider 'noble' activities (which covers most mountain stuff).
I almost contributed to stats there last year too with my medium severity paraglider landing crash (both legs broken but missed massive rock by few cms which would end up much more severe).
- tim333 2y agoI wonder how it compared to off piste snowboarding? I lived in Chamonix a bit and a lot of the shuttle bus drivers seemed to have spinal injuries from going off cliffs accidentally snowboarding off piste. It can be hard to see them in deep powder.