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DVA Days at Grands Montets, Argentiere

Free avalanche awareness & search technique classes

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Dedicate a few hours to revise or improve your avalanche search skills and be ready when there's a lot of snow and the risk of avalanches is greater.

La Chamoniarde organises free workshops to allow the general public to learn about avalanche search techniques (Under the INTERREG V project France-Italy 2014-2020 PrevRiskHauteMontagne).

A mountain guide from La Chamoniarde will teach participants the basic techniques for searching for avalanche victims: DVA search, surveying, shovelling.

Dates: Every Sunday from 8th January to 26th March 2017

Duration: 50 minutes

Prerequisite: You must be equipped with a digital DVA (Avalanche Victim Detector), probe and shovel.

Where : January: DVA Park of La Flégère / February / March: Parc DVA des Grands-Montets

Hours: Beginning of sessions 10:00 / 11:00 / 13h00 / 2:00 p.m. / 3:00 p.m.

No registration in advance, come directly to the park.

The workshops are still held even in the event of bad weather (except when the ski lifts are closed).

Venue

Grands Montets

Location

Map of the surrounding area