Avalanche safety: Special report

Avalanche safety: Special report; AUSTRIA: Austrian Tyrol: EXT AIR VIEWS snow covered mountains (3 shots) (22 secs) CMS Micky Manhart (phon) (avalanche expert) speaking into radio SOT CS Manhart speaking (not heard) BV Manhart looking up to mountain GV remote controlled mortar launcher (invented by Manhart) on mountainside firing rocket onto snow which explodes (testing whether snow is stable or likley to avalanche) GVs mortar launcher on snow covered mountainside (mortar launcher = 20 secs) GVs Skiers skiing down slopes (2 shots) (5 secs) AIR VIEWs Snow covered mountains (3 shots) (20 secs) as Harald Oehre (Pilot) explains cause of avalanches SOT Harald Oehre (Pilot) explaining cause of avalanches SOT AIR TO AIR Helicopter flying over mountains as dropping charge (2 shots) AIR VIEW Charge dropped by helicopter exploding on snow covered mountainside (helicopter charges = 10 secs) AIR VIEW scar on mountainside left by avalanche (10 secs) GV Snow covered mountain GV Snow covered village rooftops BV men sawing through block of snow on house roof (snow scenes = 7 secs) i/c as shows smashed cars caused by recent avalanche TGV Village at bottom of ski slope GV Trees lying on ground on mountainside knocked down by avalanche GV Little girl & boy picking way through debris of house wrecked by avalanche GV Snow covered landscape PAN L-R roof of half buried house sticking out of snow (avalanche aftermath = 22 secs) CS skis as along down ski slope BV skiers skiing down slope GV Snowboarder jumping over rise as along down slope (skiers = 10 secs) Egon Zimmermann (Former Olympic Ski Champion) interviewed SOT - Discusses avalanche situation i/c TX 1.3.99/NAT