Nowadays numerous Alpine rescue teams utilize these dogs to search for avalanche victims.
Speed and accuracy are obviously important when searching for an avalanche victim.
I think, maybe, there'd have been another avalanche victim.
That skill has been transferred over the centuries to help humans find prison escapees, game, bombs, drugs, avalanche victims and more.
Over the last two decades, I have unburied the bodies of more than 40 avalanche victims.
The news media tend to trumpet the outdoor "experience" of avalanche victims, but experience can be deadly when it makes us complacent.
In some cases avalanche victims are not located until spring thaw melts the snow, or even years later when objects emerge from a glacier.
Of the 2042 avalanche victims he found only seven cases where avalanche cords were used (not including the 2 mentioned above).
Search and rescue - firemen in a burning building, avalanche victims, lots of things, Ding.
An avalanche victim sucks air into the chamber through a mouthpiece attached to the vest's collar.