Mountain Rescue - Episode 4 Risky Avalanche Rescue
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Mountain Rescue - Episode 4 Risky Avalanche Rescue
An ex-member of the PGHM who is now a guide takes a couple of clients down the glacier of the Valley Blanche. As he points out it’s highlights and dangers and recounts various rescues he participated in, the crew of the PGHM carry out their daily duties. First is a tricky operation trying to recover a climber who has collapsed half-way up one of the steepest rock faces in the valley. Next they fly off in search of a young skier who has disappeared during her descent of the glacier, finding her trapped at the bottom of a deep crevasse. And as the mountain guide points out a group of skiers who are traversing a dangerous off-piste couloir, he sees the group become trapped in an avalanche, and watches as two helicopters fly in to undertake a complicated and risky operation to extract the helpless skiers and rescue one of them who has become buried in a rock slide.
Towering above the mountains of the Alps, Mont Blanc is possessed of a spectacular natural beauty. But it also has a darker side, exerting a lethal attraction for thrill seekers, extreme skiers and obsessed climbers from all over the world. They throw themselves against the mountain’s steep slopes, treacherous glaciers and vertiginous cliffs in a bid to beat this most formidable of natural adversaries.
When they fail, the consequences can be deadly. The only thing standing between them and a certain death is the helicopter rescue squad of the PGHM (Peloton de Gendarmerie du Haute Montagne), an elite squad of Alpine Gendarmes trained to secure one of the world’s deadliest peaks. Their exploits are the chronicled MOUNTAIN RESCUE!
An ex-member of the PGHM who is now a guide takes a couple of clients down the glacier of the Valley Blanche. As he points out it’s highlights and dangers and recounts various rescues he participated in, the crew of the PGHM carry out their daily duties. First is a tricky operation trying to recover a climber who has collapsed half-way up one of the steepest rock faces in the valley. Next they fly off in search of a young skier who has disappeared during her descent of the glacier, finding her trapped at the bottom of a deep crevasse. And as the mountain guide points out a group of skiers who are traversing a dangerous off-piste couloir, he sees the group become trapped in an avalanche, and watches as two helicopters fly in to undertake a complicated and risky operation to extract the helpless skiers and rescue one of them who has become buried in a rock slide.
Towering above the mountains of the Alps, Mont Blanc is possessed of a spectacular natural beauty. But it also has a darker side, exerting a lethal attraction for thrill seekers, extreme skiers and obsessed climbers from all over the world. They throw themselves against the mountain’s steep slopes, treacherous glaciers and vertiginous cliffs in a bid to beat this most formidable of natural adversaries.
When they fail, the consequences can be deadly. The only thing standing between them and a certain death is the helicopter rescue squad of the PGHM (Peloton de Gendarmerie du Haute Montagne), an elite squad of Alpine Gendarmes trained to secure one of the world’s deadliest peaks. Their exploits are the chronicled MOUNTAIN RESCUE!