Avalanche fatalities have steadily been increasing over the past decades. In the past 50 years there has been about 324 fatal avalanches killing about 440 people. Nearly all of the victims of these avalanches died from asphyxiation due to not being found within the critical first 15 minutes. With all the technological progression humanity has made in the past 30 years, these mortality rates should have gone down, but in the past 30 years advancement in avalanche rescue technology has contributed very little to lowering the mortality rates of avalanche victims, mostly due to mountain rescue teams not being able to mobilize and locate the victim within the brief optimum survival time. That's where our drone comes in.
All current avalanche rescue technology was either created for potential victims to be able to reduce the risk of being caught in an avalanche or for rescue teams to be able to locate and extract victims; neither of these ideas address fully optimizing the time in which a victim is located and able to be extracted. The proposed project will focus on the central aspect of optimizing rescue times and lowering death rates of avalanche victims.
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