re Skitour members being more cautious I remain unconvinced, particularly with stuff like this:
http://www.skitour.fr/sorties/breche-portetta,48316.html#sortie
A close shave and they just laugh it off & nobody particularly seems to pick up on it, this circuit (up the chamois then down the breche) seems to have become a recent classic, despite it involving skinning up a steep north-facing couloir which gets lots of wind-loading at the top. And the number of people sideslipping the Breche P and trashing it for everyone else is unbelievable… let alone the guy talking about having a ski come off 4 times because his inserts were iced up. Doesn’t seem like a whole lot of risk management (or understanding) there to me…