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19 results found for '"Avalanches"' in Keywords.
Royal ski party hit by fatal avalanche (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Two interviews on the avalanche at the Klosters ski resort. 1: Unidentified male on the constant risk of avalanche, even where a ski guide is employed. 2: Unidentified female mountain rescue doctor, who says...
Klosters avalanche set off by royals (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Hans Dieter Kirchhofer, a Swiss magistrate has said in his report that the avalanche that killed Major Hugh Lindsay and crushed the legs of Patricia Palmer-Tomkinson in Klosters, Switzerland was set off by...
Independent Radio News review of 1988 (1988)
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- Interview; Music; News report; Obituary; Special
Independent Radio News Review of 1988, presented by Bill Bingham. With archive pieces by different reporters (including Douglas Cameron, Ben Brown, James Bays and Peter Murphy) on the Piper Alpha explosion,...
Avalanche hits skiers (1994)
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- Interview
GP, Christopher Ackner tells reporters how lucky he was to survive an avalanche while his party was skiing off-piste in Val D’Isere, France. He says his thoughts are with the families of those who did not...
Female record climber dies on K2 (1995)
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- Interview; News report
Chris Kirkham reports that it seems increasingly likely that Alison Hargreaves, the first woman to conquer Mount Everest alone and without oxygen has died in an avalanche on the world’s second highest...
Female record climber dies on K2 (1995)
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- Interview
Interviews with Cally Fleming, a family friend, and husband Jim Ballard, about the death of mountaineer Alison Hargreaves in an avalanche during an attempt on the world’s second highest mountain, K2 in...
Female record climber dies on K2 (1995)
- Genre
- Interview
Jim Ballard, husband of record-breaking climber Alison Hargreaves, who has died in an avalanche on K2, describes to Chris Mann how he has coped with the wait for news over the last few days and the plans...
Female record climber dies on K2 (1995)
- Genre
- Interview; Obituary
Chris Mann talks to Jim Ballard, husband of record-breaking climber Alison Hargreaves who has died in an avalanche on K2. Chris first asks Jim to react to a tabloid report by Daily Express journalist Lynette...
Alison Hargreaves describes her conquest of Everest (1995)
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- Interview
Archive clip of mountaineer Alison Hargeaves talking on her conquest of Everest, without oxygen, and on her own for the last stage. She told Richard Vaughan about the loneliness of the mountains. Now...