Laviny

• Avalanche Airbags – They Don’t Make You Invincible. Skiing in the backcountry is never without risk. Managing that risk is essential to having fun and staying safe.
• Avalanche Airbags – They Don’t Make You Invincible…. Our good friend, SnowBrains author, and skier with more avalanche terrain experience the most of us combined, D’Arcy McLeish, just wrote this great piece for Last Frontier Heli in Northern British Columbia about Avalanche Airbags.
• Blog: Avalanche Airbag Effectiveness - Something Closer to the Truth. ”If you look at it with a glass-half-full approach, a deployed airbag saved about half of those who would have otherwise died. If you look it with a glass-half-empty approach, you would say that half of the people who deployed airbags died anyway.” - Bruce Temper
• European Avalanche Warning Services. přehled evropských lavinových služeb
• Medical comission UIAA. The UIAA provides up-to-date and reliable information on medical issues. To do this the UIAA Medical Commission conducts research, sets standards for training and provides forums where experts meet to discuss which recommendations to make.
• Shoveling 101 with Backcountry Access . Shoveling is the most time consuming phase of an avalanche rescue. This video takes you through some basic shoveling techniques using 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 shovelers. Be sure to take an avalanche class before heading into the winter backcountry. For a list of courses near you visit, avalanche.org.
• Why are so many of best skiers dying?.
• “Avalanche Airbags Save About 1/2 of Those Who Would Have Died” | Bruce Temper on Avalanche Effectiveness. “If you look at it with a glass-half-full approach, a deployed airbag saved about half of those who would have otherwise died. If you look it with a glass-half-empty approach, you would say that half of the people who deployed airbags died anyway.” - Bruce Temper

Metodika horolezectví

• Animated knots by Grog. TIE KNOTS THE FUN AND EASY WAY. Better to know a knot and not need it, than need a knot and not know it.
• Expedition Medicine. all kinds of medicine in high altitude
• Horolezecká metodika. Horolezecká metodika je internetová učebnice horolezectví a souvisejících alpinistických sportů, jako je vysokohorská turistika, klettersteig (via ferrata) a lezení na umělé stěně. Tématicky je učebnice zaměřená především na formy horolezectví typické pro české a středoevropské prostředí, to jest skalní lezení mimo hory, lezení na umělé stěně, vysokohorskou turistiku a horské horolezectví v prostředí Alp a Vysokých Tater. Učebnice je určená pro začátečníky, tak i pokročilé horolezce.

Skialpinistické blogy

• Definition of Backcountry, Frontcountry, Sidecountry and Slackcountry Skiing. If I hear one more person say that they “skied the backcountry today” after riding the tram…I’m gonna puke! To purists like myself (maybe?) there is a BIG difference between backcountry, frontcountry, sidecountry and slackcountry.
• HO Tigi Shu.
• My journey towards becoming a doctor. student who is focused on backcountry
• Paličův zanedbatelný sněhoblog. věnován různým taškařicím na sněhu a ledu, převážně potom skialpinismu.
• Reader Poll: Crossing Tracks…The Ultimate Faux Paus. So…I was having a conversation with the Kitty the other day about skiing over and crossing other peoples ski tracks when in the backcountry.
• Ski instructors pose naked in the snow for a calendar. Every year, since a few years, ski instructors become models for a calendar aiming at promoting winter sports.
• Skiing History magazine. Vše o historii lyžování
• SkinTrack.com. Tips and advice from a world caliber skimo racer. Peter Svätojánsky shares invaluable info gained through his own exprience.
• WildSnow.com. Lou Dawson a jeho skialpový blog

Skialpinistické průvodce

• Alpspitze - Freeski-Mountaineering. Nejenom skialpinistický průvodce po Německu
• JERKY SNOW CAMP 2012 Macedonia.

Summitpost

• KG Pik 6624. SP summit
• KG Pik Korzhenevskovo (6008 m). SP summit
• KG Pik MC (4986 m). SP summit
• KG Pik Todo (4360 m). SP summit
• KG Pik Voenno Morskogo Flota (5842 m). SP summit
• RO Galatau (2048 m). SP summit
• RO Gargalau (2159 m). SP summit
• RU Aag / Arik volcano (2310 m). SP summit
• RU Avachinskaja sopka (2741 m). SP summit
• RU Klyuchevskaya Sopka (4750 m). SP summit
• RU Korjakskij volcano (3462 m). SP summit
• RU Kozelskij volcano (2250 m). SP summit
• RU Ostraja sopka (1233 m). SP summit
• RU Vijuchinskij volcano (2173 m). SP summit