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Backcountry skiing news roundup including thoughts on K2 climbers accident and Luis Stitzinger on Nanga Parbat

Backcountry skiing and ski touring news, growing glaciers, fund raising parties and other interesting tidbits from the mountain world.

News about ski touring and other backcountry skiing related items, including wildlife and land use issues, also energy policy that influences public land.

Knox Williams, Colorado’s statewide avalanche hazard forecasting pioneer is the backcountry skiing inductee to Colorado’s Ski Hall of Fame.

The multiple burial avalanche safety controversy is really what I’d call a reality strike for ski touring. Fact one: most buried avalanche victims must be dug out within 15 minutes or they perish. Fact two: digging a person out can easily reach the point of physical impossibility if only one person is on the shovel.