Snow avalanche experience through 25 years at NGI.

Abstract

This year it is 25 years since the Norwegian parliament decided that NG! should be the institution responsible for snow avalanche research and consulting work in Norway. Because of several major snow avalanche accidents in the late sixties and early seventies when many persons were killed and constructions damaged, an official comity appointed by the Department of Industry, came to the conclusion that NG! was the best fitted institution to handle snow avalanche problems in our country.