Crevassology 5-11-2012

Wow - thanks for sharing, Niko!

Glad things turned OK.

Gotta say you look as cool as a cuke

Cheers
Ivo

My own personal encounter with a collapsing snow bridge also involved probing (with an ice axe). Fortunately, my partner had me on a boot-axe belay and I only fell in up to my armpit and was able to climb out. I'm no longer a fan of probing a fragile snow bridge.

I have a question.

Why did you not bribe your SAR team into a celebratory heli drop off of fitzsimmons or any of the other peaks in the area?

Oh and thats pretty cool you walked away unscathed and more knowledgable.

Why did you not bribe your SAR team into a celebratory heli drop off of fitzsimmons or any of the other peaks in the area?
Oh and thats pretty cool you walked away unscathed and more knowledgable.

I wanted to ski back to base but the guys insisted that I ride back with them (for obvious reasons: I wasn't injured but my head was a little light, and they knew that would be the case), so I went along. No joy ride or heli skiing for me (helicopters terrify me ).

BTW some of the news stories contain an error I need to correct: somebody must have assumed that the depth I mentioned was in metric units (because we were in Canada) and multiplied my numbers by 3 whereas I had already converted it into footage. It was a bad hole but some of the stories make it more like the crevasse in The Ascent of Rum Doodle (without the champagne).

N

I saw a TV news report on this and the only fact they reported correctly was the area you were in LOL. Glad everyone safe.