- Title: Equinox: Avalanche
- Date: 12th November 1995
- Summary: Avalanches are not triggered by loud noises and 99 per cent of avalanche victims trigger the avalanche themselves. This programme features a specially filmed sequence of the damage an avalanche can do to a house, graphic examples of skiers causing and being caught in avalanches, and unique footage of a 'wet' avalanche - an entire mountainside of snow in Norway transformed into sluch and crept downslope at little more than 2mph. It all but destroyed the small town of Odda in the fjords!
- Description:Avalanches can strike without warning,often releasing upwards of one million tonnes of snow in a matter of seconds and destroying everything in their path. 99 percent of avalanches are triggered by human error and 75 percent of human victims are fatalities. Compared to the vast store of information we have about earthquakes,scientific understanding of avalanches is fairly Ltd... There are new advances in designs to protect those on the slopes including a skier's airbag that is undergoing field trials and an advance warning system.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:Pioneer Film And Television Productions Ltd.
- Transmission Date:12/11/1995
- Rights:Worldwide
- Decade: 1990s