(30 Mar 2025)
ITALY MOUNTAIN RESCUE DOG TRAINING
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, 25th March 2025
1. Zen, 5-year-old Border Collie, and alpine rescuer Paolo Sbisa getting in position ready to conduct a training exercise in searching for missing people following an avalanche
2. Close of Sbisa’s hand on the radio, patch of Italian Alpine Rescue Corp on his uniform
3. Various of Sbisa unleashing the dog Zen and searching
4. Various of Sbisa and other rescuer taking another man acting as a missing person out of a hole under the snow after Zen found him
5. Sbisa playing with Zen after he successfully found the person acting as missing under the snow
6. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Paolo Sbisa, Alpine Rescuer and handler of Zen:
“If all goes well the (missing) person can be found through the use of electronic tools such as the ARTVA (Avalanche Transceiver) and they must be used by all mountain-goers, if something goes wrong though, the only weapon the Alpine rescuers have to search is the dog, we have no other chances.”
7. Various of rescue dog wearing protective goggles against the sun
8. Various of Alpine rescuer playing with his dog
9. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Adriano Favre, Head of Training Schools for Alpine Rescue Corp:
“These are avalanche dog units, and as such we can say they are the frontline units. These units will get the license here so that later they will be assigned to the rescue helicopters bases, and they will be the ones who arrive the first on the avalanche scene.”
10. Various of helicopter flying over the training location
11. Rescue helicopter landing
12. Alpine rescuer team with dog getting off the helicopter
13. Helicopter on top of a snowy hill
14. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Gianni Marigo, Climatologist, Manager at the Avalanche Research Centre of Arabba – AINEVA (Association for coordination and documentation of snow and avalanche problems) and ARPAV (Environmental Protection Regional Agency for Veneto region):
“The Mediterranean basin is considered a so-called hot spot, that is an area on the planet where climate change, particularly (temperatures) warming, takes effect more than at the global average, and we can say that within the Mediterranean basin the Alpine areas, the Italian Alps that we study at least, are a hot spot within a hot spot. This means that climate change is affecting the Italian Alps in a particularly significant way.”
15. Various of rescue dog searching during training
16. Various of rescue dog finding the missing person inside a whole under the snow
17. Rescuer and his dog taking the missing person out of the snow
18. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Gianni Marigo, Climatologist, Manager at the Avalanche Research Centre of Arabba – AINEVA (Association for coordination and documentation of snow and avalanche problems) and ARPAV (Environmental Protection Regional Agency for Veneto region):
“It always varies from season to season, but we see also that the duration of the snow surface is decreasing. From our statistics we see that compared to the precedent 30-year period, there is a decreasing trend not of the overall quantity of fresh snow but of the depth and duration of the snow at ground level. This is because snow lasts shorter, so to say, and also it is a heavier snow at lower altitudes, that compacts more easily, so an equal snowfall may result in a less stable snow blankets.”
19. Various of Alpine rescuers searching the snow using probes and shovels during test and training
21. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Ezio Tedesco, Alpine Rescuer and rescue dog conductor:
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