DATASET IDENTIFICATION ------------------------ - DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.16904/envidat.26 - URL: https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/avalanche-fatalities-european-alps-1969-2015 TITLE ------- Avalanche fatalities in the European Alps (1969/1970 - 2014/2015) PUBLICATION ------------- Geographica Helvetica, 2016 AUTHORS --------- - Frank Techel (WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF) - Frédéric Jarry (Association Nationale pour l'Étude de la Neige et des Avalanches, Grenoble, France) - Georg Kronthaler (Lawinenwarndienst Bayern, Munich, Germany) - Susanna Mitterer (Österreichisches Kuratorium für alpine Sicherheit, Innsbruck, Austria) - Patrick Nairz (Lawinenwarndienst Tirol, Innsbruck, Austria) - Miha Pavšek (Anton Melik Geographical Institute, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia) - Mauro Valt (Centro Valanghe di Arabba, Arabba, Italy) KEYWORDS ---------- - AVALANCHE ACCIDENT - AVALANCHE ACCIDENT STATISTICS - AVALANCHE FATALITIES - AVALANCHE STATISTICS - LONG-TERM TRENDS ABSTRACT ---------- During the last 45 years, about 100 people lost their lives in avalanches in the European Alps each year. Avalanche fatalities in settlements and on transportation corridors have considerably decreased since the 1970s. In contrast, the number of avalanche fatalities during recreational activities away from avalanche-secured terrain doubled between the 1960s and 1980s and has remained relatively stable since, despite a continuing strong increase in winter backcountry recreational activities. Data complementing Figure 2 in: _"Avalanche fatalities in the European Alps: long-term trends and statistics"_, by Techel, F., Jarry, F., Kronthaler, G., Mitterer, S., Nairz, P., Pavšek, M., Valt, M., and Darms, G. Data description: please refer to section 2 (Data and Methods) in the mentioned publication DATES ------- - Created: 2018-12-06 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ------------------ The following institutions contributed to finance this dataset: - Funding information not available. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ------------------------ - Version: 1.0 - Type: dataset (dataset) - Language: en - License: odc-odbl - Location: undefined DATA RESOURCES ---------------- - Data avalanche fatalities 1969/1970 - 2014/2015 (text/plain): The data comprises avalanche fatality data from the Alpine regions in the seven countries Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Slovenia, and Switzerland. CONTACT PERSON ---------------- Frank Techel (WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF), mail: techel@slf.ch