Calazo The Avalanche Book

The Avalanche Book is written for those who love to ski off-piste and go on top tours. In other words - for those who must be able to decide on their own whether it is safe to ski on the slope in front of you.

Step by step you will learn avalanche risk assessment, buddy rescue and how to reduce the risks on the way up and down. An entire chapter is devoted to risk behaviors among us skiers, something that has attracted increasing interest among avalanche researchers worldwide in recent years.

This is the fourth revised edition of the book with new material on these topics:

More about the human factors, and what they really are.

Buddy rescue with new international guidelines for how to probe and dig.

Decision support for off-piste skiers.

The author Mårten Johansson has worked actively with avalanche safety for 15 years and runs the Åre Avalanche Center, Sweden's only center for avalanche safety. Nowhere else in the country is so much information and experience collected about avalanches and avalanche accidents.

Year of publication: 2025

Number of pages: 192

Author: Mårten Johansson