Avalanches > Accident Statistics > 2004 - 2005
The following table is a summary of the winter sports accidents recorded by PisteHors.com for the 04-05 season. This covers a nivological year, from the 1st October 2004 to the 30th September 2005. It is a small cross section of off-piste and winter sports accidents although the figures for avalanche fatalities is complete.
An analysis of backcountry and off-piste accidents for is available for download.
| Date | Injuries | Deaths | Range | Department | Location | Experience | Activity | Cause | Remarks | Rescue | Nationality | Time | altitude | Aspect | Risk |
| 28/Nov/04 | 1 | 0 | Oisans | Isère | les Deux Alps | On Piste Snowboarding | Fall | PGHM | French | 3200 | n/c | ||||
| 28/Nov/04 | 0 | 1 | Alps | Hautes-Alpes | Cime du Vallon du Rabioux | Walking | Fall | Ice | French | 1430 | n/c | ||||
| 18/Dec/04 | 2 | 0 | Belledonne | Isère | Chamrousse/Lac Robert | Experienced Ski Moutaineer/Local | Ski Touring | Avalanche | Victims partially buried | CRS des Alpes | French | 14h55 | 2200 | 3 | |
| 18/Dec/04 | 1 | 1 | Aravais | Haute-Savoie | La Clusaz/Combe de Paccaly | Ski Touring | Avalanche | No Transceivers | GMSP | French | 14h55 | 2400 | 3 | ||
| 31/Dec/04 | 1 | 0 | Massif Central | Le Mont Dore/Val d'Enfer | Off Piste Skiing | Fall | 350 meters | French | 1500 | N | n/c | ||||
| 31/Dec/04 | 1 | 0 | Grandes Rousses | Isère | l'Alpe d'Huez | Off Piste Skiing | Fall | PGHM | 10h30 | ||||||
| 09/Jan/05 | 1 | 0 | Belledonne | Isère | Crêt du Poulet | Ski Touring | Fall | PGHM | 14h30 | ||||||
| 15/Jan/05 | 1 | 1 | Sancy | Le Mont Dore/Val de Courre | Group from Orleans | Snow Shoeing | Fall | 150 meters on ice | French | 10h30 | 1500 | ||||
| 16/Jan/05 | 1 | 0 | Taillefer | Isère | Local | Ski Touring | Fall | PGHM | French | ||||||
| 22/Jan/05[1] | 0 | 1 | Savoie | Les Karellis | Off Piste Snowboarding | Avalanche | |||||||||
| 25/Jan/05 | 0 | 1 | Lac de Lou | Savoie | Les Menuires / Val Thorens | with instructor | Off Piste Skiing | Avalanche | Piste Patrol | Norwegian | 9h45 | 2000 | N? | 4 | |
| 25/Jan/05 | 0 | 1 | Col du Tougne | Savoie | La Plagne | with guide | Ski Touring | Avalanche | injuries due to rocks - beacon | Piste Patrol | 11h50 | 2500 | E | 4 | |
| 25/Jan/05 | 0 | 1 | Combe de Lanchettes | Savoie | Les Arcs | Experienced season worker | Off Piste Snowboarding | Avalanche | buried several meters - beacon | Piste Patrol | British | 12h20 | 2450 | NE | 4 |
| 25/Jan/05 | 0 | 1 | Bellevarde | Savoie | Val d'Isère | Local | Off Piste Snowboarding | Avalanche | following tracks - beacon | Piste Patrol | French | 14h05 | N | 4 | |
| 25/Jan/05 | 1 | 0 | Plan d'Aguille / Plan Praz? | Haute-Savoie | Chamonix | Experienced | Off Piste Skiing | Avalanche | PGHM | 4 | |||||
| 25/Jan/05 | 0 | 1 | Bellevarde/Table Couloir | Savoie | Val d'Isère | Local / Instructor | Off Piste Snowboarding | Avalanche | alone - beacon | Pisteurs | French | 23h00 | N | 4 | |
| 25/Jan/05 | 1 | 0 | la cascade de Glace des Moulins | Isère | La Grave | Climbing | Avalanche | Ice fall - injury due to ice block | GRIMP | Spanish | 14h00 | 4 | |||
| 27/Jan/05 | 0 | 1 | Couloir du Ganchoue | Hautes-Pyrénées | Barèges | Off Piste Skiing | Avalanche | Deep burial, no transceiver | CRS | French | 14h30 | 2000 | N | 4 | |
| 30/Jan/05 | 1 | 0 | Couloir du Ganchoue | Hautes-Pyrénées | Barèges | Off Piste Snowboarding | Avalanche | CRS | French | 2000 | N | 4 | |||
| 04/Jan/05 | 1 | 0 | Haute Savoie | Chablais | Walking | Avalanche | 1m slab | 2200 | SW | 3 | |||||
| 06/Feb/05 | 0 | 2 | Combe des Arriérés | Savoie | Champagny en Vanoise | With Instructor | Off Piste Skiing | Avalanche | Transceiver | Piste Patrol | Belgium | 11h15 | 2500 | 2 | |
| 09/Feb/05 | 1 | 0 | Prapoutel | Isère | Les Sept Laux | Off Piste Skiing | Fall | 150 meters on ice | CRS | ||||||
| 13/Feb/05 | 0 | 1 | le Planey | Savoie | Notre-Dame de Bellecombe | Cross Country Skiing | Fall | fall into river | Dutch | ||||||
| 14/Feb/05 | 0 | 1 | Aussois | Savoie | Aussois | Piste Patrol | Off Piste Skiing | Avalanche | Avalanche Clearance Work | French | |||||
| 16/Feb/05 | 1 | 0 | Haute-Savoie | Chamonix | Off Piste Skiing | Avalanche/Fall | skiing alone | 4 | |||||||
| 16/Feb/05 | 0 | 1 | Roche de l'Ombre | Savoie | Courchevel | Off Piste Skiing | Avalanche | French | 2350 | N | 4 | ||||
| 23/Feb/05 | 0 | 2 | Glacier Argentière | Haute-Savoie | Argentière | with Guide | Climbing | Ice Fall/Avalanche | French | 17h30 | 2300 | 3 | |||
| 24/Feb/05 | 2 | 0 | Rinoso | Haute-Corse | Corte | With Guide | Ski Touring | Avalanche | GRIMP | French | 14h00 | 1600 | 3 | ||
| 24/Feb/05 | 0 | 1 | Val Thorens | Savoie | Val Thorens | ski instructor | Off Piste Skiing | Avalanche | transceiver | French | 16h30 | 3 | |||
| 24/Feb/05 | 1 | 0 | Bonneval-sur-Arc | Savoie | Bonneval-sur-Arc | Off Piste Skiing | Avalanche | 16h30 | 3 | ||||||
| 26/Feb/05 | 1 | 0 | Crête du Cros | Isère | Vercors | Romans/isère | Ski Touring | Fall | knee injury | CRS | French | ||||
| 27/Feb/05 | 1 | 0 | Chamchaude | Isère | Col du Porte | Brignoud | Ski Touring | Fall | fracture leg/ skiing at night | CRS | French | 02h00 | 2000 | W | |
| 27/Feb/05 | 1 | 0 | Combe de Poutran | Isère | Oz-en-Oisans | Off Piste Skiing | Fall | 300m fall after Cornice collapse | CRS | British | |||||
| 28/Feb/05 | 1 | 0 | Lances de Malissard | Isère | St Pierre en Chartreuse | Ski Touring | Fall | Shoulder Injury | PGHM | ||||||
| 01/Mar/05 | 0 | 1 | Saut du Laire | Hautes-Alpes | Orcières | Local | Snow Shoeing | Fall | fall on ice | French | 2000 | ||||
| 05/Mar/05 | 0 | 1 | Couloir de Casse-Rousse | Isère | Chamrouse | Local | Off Piste Skiing | Fall | Poor Visibility | PGHM/Pisteurs | French | 15h00 | 2000 | W | 4 |
| 09/Mar/05 | 1 | 0 | Grande-Tourra | Savoie | Termignon | Local | Ski Touring | Avalanche | French | 1900 | N/W | 3 | |||
| 11/Mar/05 | 0 | 3 | Nant-Forchu | Savoie | Ecole en Bauges | CAF group | Ski (snowshoe?) Touring | Avalanche | Full depth avalanche from above - avalanche dog | PGHM/Firebrigade | French | 15h20 | 1300 | W | 4 |
| 11/Mar/05 | 0 | 1 | Pic de la Barasse | Hautes-Pyrénées | La Mongie | Season Worker | Off Piste Snowboarding | Avalanche | Full depth avalanche | PGHM/Pisteurs | French | 16h30 | N | 4 | |
| 13/Mar/05 | 0 | 2 | Col des Méandes | Hautes-Alpes | MontThabor | Club Group, Experienced | Ski Touring | Avalanche | Slab avalanche - transceiver | PGHM | French | 09h00 | 3000 | S/E | 2 |
| 13/Mar/05 | 1 | 0 | Grand Som | Isère | Chartreuse | Ski Touring | Avalanche | CRS des Alpes | 12h00 | 1500 | 2-3 | ||||
| 13/Mar/05 | 0 | 1 | Schaefferthal | Vosges | Stosswihr | Local - experienced skier | Ski Touring | Avalanche | Probe Search | PGM | French | 14h00 | N | 3[2] | |
| 13/Mar/05 | 0 | 1 | Vallée Blanche | Haute-Savoie | Chamonix | Off Piste Snowboarding | Fall | Crevasse fall, walking on glacier | 3400 | ||||||
| 15/Mar/05 | 0 | 1 | Glacier de l'Argentière | Haute-Savoie | Chamonix | Off Piste Skiing | Fall | 15 meter Crevasse fall | PGHM | French | `14h00 | 2500 | |||
| 16/Mar/05 | 1 | 0 | Grand Moulins | Isère | Belledonne | Nico from our colleagues at SkiTour.fr. | Ski Touring | Fall | Twisted knee | Sécurité Civile | |||||
| 19/Mar/05 | 0 | 1 | Col du Lac | Hautes-Alpes | la Grave | Off Piste Skiing | Fall | Snowbridge Collapse | 3000 | ||||||
| 20/Mar/05 | 0 | 1 | Grand Lance de Domène | Isère | Belledonne | Local | Ski Touring | Fall | Route finding error | PGHM | French | 13h30 | 2400 | S | 2 |
| 25/Mar/05 | 1 | 1 | Glacier du Rognon | Haute-Savoie | Vallée Blanche | Off Piste Skiing | Fall | 30m fall into crevasse | PGHM | Swedish | 10h00 | 3000 | 2 | ||
| 02/Apr/05 | 2 | 0 | Bellecôte | Savoie | Dome de Pichères | Ski Touring | Avalanche | Small slab | Self | French | 2700 | N | 3 | ||
| 02/Apr/05 | 0 | 1 | Saulire | Savoie | Courchevel | Snowboarder | Fall | French | 12h15 | 2500 | |||||
| 09/Apr/05 | 1 | 0 | Chaudefour | Puy-de-Dôme | Le Mont Dore | Local | Snowboarder | Avalanche | Slab | Not buried | French | 1400 | E | nc | |
| 10/Apr/05 | 0 | 1 | Pointe du Chateau | Haute-Savoie | Reposoir | Local | Ski Touring | Avalanche | small slab/terrain trap | PGHM | French | 13h45 | 2200 | W | 4 |
| 11/Apr/05 | 2 | 0 | Col du Replat | Isère | Oisans | Guided Group | Ski Touring | Avalanche | W | ||||||
| 17/Apr/05 | 0 | 1 | Pène Méda | Pyrénées-Atlantiques | Gourette | alone, 20 m from piste, no beacon | Off Piste Skiing | Avalanche | slab | Piste Patrol/PGHM | French | 10h40 | 2000 | N/W | 3 |
| 21/Apr/05 | 0 | 2 | Grande Motte | Savoie | Tignes | Season workers, equipped | Off Piste Snowboarding | Avalanche | large slab, cliffs | Piste Patrol/CRS/PGHM | British | 16h05 | 3200 | N | 3 |
| 30/Apr/05 | 1 | 0 | Davin | Hautes-Alpes | Serre Chevalier | Ski Touring | Fall | lost balance in steep couloir | Helicopter | French | 13h00 | 2800 | N | 3 | |
| 30/Apr/05 | 1 | 0 | Brêche du Rateau | Hautes-Alpes | La Grave | C2C members | Ski Touring | Avalanche | purge on south face in afternoon | PGHM | French | PM | 3200 | E | 3 |
| 15/May/05 | 1 | 0 | Col du Diable Nord | Hautes-Alpes | Grande Ruine | NimpCrew | Snowshoeing | Avalanche | small slab 30x70x40cm, 100m fall | CRS | French | 9h20 | 3100 | N | - |
| 15/May/05 | 0 | 1 | Cime du Sambuis | Savoie | Col du Glandon | Local | Ski Touring | Fall | slid on ice, 300 m fall | PGHM Modane | French | 8h30 | 2700 | N | |
| 15/May/05 | 0 | 1 | Pointe du Vallonnet | Savoie | Pralognan | Local | Ski Touring | Fall | Cornice collapse - 700m fall | PGHM Modane | French | 12h00 | 3000 | ||
| 20/May/05 | 1 | 1 | Glacier des Sellettes | Isère | Aigulle de lÂOlan | Snowshoeing | Avalanche | 200m fall | CRS Briançon | 15h00 | - | ||||
| 26/July/05 | 2 | 1 | Mont Blanc | Haute-Savoie | Mont Blanc du Tacul | British Army Group | Climbing | Avalance | triggered by sérac | PGHM Chamonix | British | 15h00 | 3500 | - |
[1] Source: www.ANENA.org
[2] No avalanche bulletins for the Jura but assume similar risk to pre-Alps at the moment.
| Ski Touring | 9 |
| Off Piste Skiing | 8 [1] |
| Snowboard Touring | 0 |
| Off Piste Snowboarding | 7 |
| Snowshoeing | 1 |
| Climbing | 1 |
| Walking | 0 |
| Total for the season | 26 |
[1] Includes one accident involving a member of the piste patrol during avalanche control
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