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Dear
friends of wintersports!
After
Herbert Fournier himself had gotten caught in an avalanche in 1994 and
luckily ended up only partly buried, we started to take an increased
interest in the topic of AVALANCHES in general. Together, we analyzed
countless accident reports and compared the data obtained from the
Kuratorium für Alpine Sicherheit (Austrian Alpine Safety Board) and
from the Schweizer Lawinenforschungs-Institut SLF (Swiss Institute for
Snow Science and Avalanche Research) in Davos, Switzerland.
According
to the reports, only few people using a transceiver succeeded in finding
their friends in time to save their lives in real-life avalanche
scenarios. If, however, there were visible clues at the surface, they
would – in spite of stress and panic – instinctively do all the right
things and were in most cases able to extricate the buried persons alive.
This data
inspired us to develop a new product that originally was only meant to
ensure our own safety. The simplicity of this system and its enormous
benefits in practical use fascinated fellow ski tourers right from the
start. Time and again, they would say how important it would be to
implement such a system for all snowsports enthusiasts.
Convinced
of the necessity to make such a system available to the general public and
following several years of developing and testing, we finally launched the
»AVALANCHE
BALL«
in the year 2000.
Before long, experts
called this system a revolution in the rescue of avalanche victims by
their companions. It had not always been easy... but time was on our side.
Despite the high efficiency of this rescue system, we were also faced with
opposition. Nevertheless,
the exceptional results obtained in practical use since the year 2000 soon
proved that the skeptical view of quite a few »opinion leaders« had not
been justified.
Our success
speaks for itself. After all these years, we are proud of having withstood
the occasional vicious headwind coming from the ranks of experts who, in
one way or another, were linked to our competitors. We have maintained our
independence and held on to our visions. Today, there is no doubt that the
AVALANCHE BALL
is the most
cost-effective and fastest system for the detection of persons trapped
under avalanches.
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