| 本帖最后由 化缘和尚 于 2018-5-3 18:12 编辑 The Deadliest Days on the ALPS in Decades 十年来阿尔卑斯山上最致命的日子 A powerful storm swept the mountains over the weekend and killed more than a dozen people 一场强大的风暴在周末席卷山区，杀死了十多人 阿尔卑斯山的大风暴突袭了周末的登山者和滑雪者，迄今已杀死十多人。 这场风暴发生在几个星期的比平时还要暖和的天气。令人眩目的雾和冰冷的气流将温度降低到冰点以下，并引发了山上许多人的不安。总之，意大利报纸La Republica报道说，在暴风雨中有14人死亡，受害者在阿尔卑斯山的意大利，法国和瑞士等地报道。 最大的悲剧是14名主要是欧洲的滑雪者，其中包括一名意大利导游，沿着Haute Route路行驶，这条迂回曲折的道路始于勃朗峰下方的Chamonix，结束于距离马特洪峰约10,000英尺的地方。该小组已经开始了为期六天的巡回演出。星期天，当他们走到Pigne d'Arolla高峰脚下的Vignettes Hut时，风暴席卷了滑雪者。  小组的导游Mario Castiglioni求助，但他在暴风雨中失去了方向，跌倒在悬崖上，并死亡。小组的其他成员挤在一起，不得不在风中过夜。 “地狱只能是这样的一个夜晚，像那样冷，”一名幸存者，一名意大利人托马西·皮乔利对当地媒体说。当白天到达并且风暴过去时，小组发现有一个人在夜间死亡。他们也意识到他们只是从小屋里滑出五分钟的滑雪场。直升机将幸存者送到附近的医院，在那里三个人去世。截至周二，共有七名滑雪者死亡，大部分来自体温过低。 在阿尔卑斯山的其他地方，两名法国滑雪选手死于不同的事件。两名登山者失踪了一天，之后经过长达数日的救援行动后被发现。一名俄罗斯登山者仍然失踪，被认为是瓦莱州阿尔卑斯山的一个死亡地点，这是一个与西部相连的地区。两名瑞士徒步旅行者也被发现死亡。一名法国徒步旅行者被送往医院后死亡。两名法国滑雪者在勃朗峰脚下的雪崩中死亡。 瑞士当地一家新闻网站报道说，这是自1999年以来阿尔卑斯山上最致命的几天，当时有12人在瑞士城市埃沃利纳附近的雪崩中丧生。 勃朗峰在15,777英尺处是阿尔卑斯山最高的山峰，也是西欧最高的山峰。这也是最致命的。估计每年平均死亡人数约为100人。是什么让勃朗峰如此致命不是它的高度或技术攀登 - 这是容易获得。该地区的导游有时会将旅行做广告，就好像他们是一日游。正如作家莱恩华莱士在六年前在大西洋上指出的那样，在又一次死亡之后，吊船甚至将徒步旅行者拉到高达9000英尺的高度，在压倒性的环境中，有时候没有经验的人会放弃。在春季和夏季，勃朗峰和周围的山峰对于冒险的冒险似乎毫无吸引力 - 其中一些人可能没有准备好迎接狂风暴雨。 massive storm in the Alps took climbers and skiers by surprise over the weekend and has killed more than a dozen people so far. The storm followed several weeks of warmer-than-usual weather. The blinding fog and icy winds dropped temperatures to below freezing levels and caught many people on the mountains off guard. In all, the Italian newspaper La Republica reported that 14 people died during the storm, with victims reported in the Italian, French, and Swiss portions of the Alps. The single-largest tragedy befell a group of 14 mainly European skiers, including an Italian guide, making their way along the Haute Route, a circuitous path that begins in Chamonix below Mont Blanc and ends just below the Matterhorn at about 10,000 feet. The group had set out on a six-day tour. On Sunday, as they approached the Vignettes Hut at the foot of the Pigne d’Arolla peak, the storm engulfed the skiers. The group’s guide, Mario Castiglioni, went for help but he lost his way in the storm, fell over a cliff, and died. The rest of the group huddled down and had to spend the night outside in the blowing wind. “Hell can only be a night like that and cold like that,” one survivor, an Italian named TommASI Piccioli told local media. When daylight arrived and the storm passed, the group found that one person had died in the night. They also realized they were only a five-minute ski from the hut. Helicopters flew the survivors to nearby hospitals, where three more passed away. By Tuesday, a total of seven of the skiers were dead, most from hypothermia. Elsewhere in the Alps, two French skiers died in separate incidents. Two climbers went missing for a day and were later found after a days-long rescue effort. A Russian climber, still missing, has been presumed dead in the Valais Alps, a connected range just to the west. Two Swiss hikers were also found dead. A French hiker died after being taken to the hospital. And two French skiers died in an avalanche at the foot of Mont Blanc. The Local, a Swiss news website, reported that it’s the deadliest few days in the Alps since 1999, when 12 people died in an avalanche near the Swiss city of Evolène. At 15,777 feet, Mont Blanc is the highest mountain in the Alps and the tallest in western Europe. It’s also the most deadly. Estimates put the average death toll on the mountain around 100 per year. What makes Mont Blanc so deadly is not its height or technical climbing—it’s the easy access. Guides in the area sometimes advertise trips as if they were day hikes. As writer Lane Wallace pointed out in The Atlantic six years ago after another rash of deaths, gondolas even haul hikers up to 9,000 feet, dropping sometimes inexperienced people in an overwhelming environment. In the spring and summer, Mont Blanc and the surrounding mountains can seem unassumingly attractive to the would-be adventurous—some of whom may be unprepared for a freak storm. |
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