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Risk of Avalanche Involvement in Winter Backcountry Recreation: The Advantage of Small Groups  Benjamin Zweifel, MSc, PhD, Emily Procter, MSc, Frank Techel,

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1 Risk of Avalanche Involvement in Winter Backcountry Recreation: The Advantage of Small Groups 
Benjamin Zweifel, MSc, PhD, Emily Procter, MSc, Frank Techel, MSc, Giacomo Strapazzon, MD, PhD, Roman Boutellier  Wilderness & Environmental Medicine  Volume 27, Issue 2, Pages (June 2016) DOI: /j.wem Copyright © 2016 Wilderness Medical Society Terms and Conditions

2 Figure 1 Registration board at Tschuggen in the Flüela Valley, Davos, Switzerland. Wilderness & Environmental Medicine  , DOI: ( /j.wem ) Copyright © 2016 Wilderness Medical Society Terms and Conditions

3 Figure 2 Distribution of group sizes from the 3 Swiss usage datasets compared with the Swiss accident data (top three) as well as the Italian usage dataset compared with the Italian accident data (bottom). Wilderness & Environmental Medicine  , DOI: ( /j.wem ) Copyright © 2016 Wilderness Medical Society Terms and Conditions

4 Figure 3 Relative risk of group size 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6 or more compared with the reference group (size 2) in the 3 Swiss usage datasets and for the Italian dataset. The size of the bullet points indicates the significance level. Wilderness & Environmental Medicine  , DOI: ( /j.wem ) Copyright © 2016 Wilderness Medical Society Terms and Conditions

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