NY Times multimedia avalanche story worth reading

[234blair]

Check out this multimedia story on the New York Times website called: Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek. It details an avalanche at Tunnel Creek near Stevens Pass, Washington on Feb 19, 2012 that was deadly to a group of professional skiers. The combination of pictures, video, graphics, audio and text makes for an interesting read. Watch this on your desktop with high speed internet to see all the special features. Shows how easily an awesome day in the best snow of the winter can turn tragic. Some very sad interviews with the widows. See link

The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia

Wikipedia description of the accident

2012 Tunnel Creek avalanche - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[adamg]

There is already a thread on this.

 

[SLEDBUNNYRACING]

I was in NY yesterday and have the paper...very interesting read.

 

[Stompin Tom]

a very interesting read, a well done format. I thought I would take a quick look and an hour later I was still reading it.

Its almost as much of a story on group dynamics as it is an avalanche story.