So that is the most ridiculous title that I have ever employed on this blog. Avalanches... Broome.. has Casey finally lost the plot? Well, maybe - but I blame Dr Morgenstern. He sent me an article to review for this month's Journal Club and it forced me down a deep rabbit hole into a snowy academia that I never knew existed.

Avalanches claim the lives of around 160 winter recreationists and workers in hazardous snow-covered mountain regions worldwide. These fatalities result from asphyxia, trauma, and hypothermia.…

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