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Avalanche Simulator |
KILDARE, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Here’s an interesting one while reading the climbing news on Kairn this morning.
The ski resort of Les Deux Alpes has launched an avalanche simulator to let you experience what it’d be like - for 20 seconds that is. “The simulator has two cabins and a large fan to blow cold air. The simulator can rotate around six axes and can throw the user through an arc of seven meters.” The simulator does have a noble goal as it’s been created by “a local businessman Marc Dode who lost a ski instructor friend and his client in an avalanche several years ago.”
Sounds like an interesting experience all the same.
- Neal :) -
Latest Comments (7):
It’d be like being thrown around in a cold tumble dryer, I suppose?
one wonders what the practical application of such a device would be. flight simulators go some way to prepare one for a life in the skies, but i don’t think there can be too many folk aspiring to being caught up in 1 or more avalanches!! :-o
LOL :)
You’ve got a point Tango&Cash (or am I able to write you as T&C?!), although I was watching ‘XXX’ (the action movie, smarties) recently and I’ve always wanted to out-snowboard an avalanche. Maybe I should prepare for when it (and it’s most definitely a ‘when’, not an ‘if’) goes wrong?…..
:)
I’m not so sure I ever wanted to be thrown around a tumble dryer however ;)
I suppose you have a point if you think big Vin is ‘da man’ in XXX.
“Welcome to the Xander-zone”
:-D
:)
I was only making it up (for some reason I still remember that scene from it), but ‘Xander-zone’ brought me back!
Sigh, it’s only every once in a while some quality cheesy movies appear like that……..
And then it becomes a threat to the health and safety of oneself and others when one decides to replicate a few of the scenes!
Now, go to your room - You’re GROUNDED, sonny-boy!!!
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