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Gottlieb Lorenz
The day when the avalanche came
video length:
1:54
interviewer:
Ruth Deutschmann
photography:
Benjamin Epp
copyright location:
Galtür
date of recording:
2008-08-18
English translation by:
Sylvia Manning - Baumgartner
Italian translation by:
Nicole D´Incecco
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1999
transcription:
It surely was an exceptional situation. That year there was a lot of snow already at the end of January. Later, the situation calmed down again and the danger of avalanches diminished. In the middle of February there was another bout of bad weather, that bad weather front. It brought a lot of snow in a short time. Then you could feel - I was at the hut – you could feel that something was about to happen. But I wasn't afraid of something happening because I knew I was in a safe place where nothing had ever happened. We never thought that this catastrophe could befall us. But you could feel – something was coming. Also where I was, up here. For example: The day the avalanche destroyed our house - I got two headlamps in the morning which I needed that evening. To this day I don't know why I got them. That's how it was. In hindsight you think: "Why did I go and get them?""What was I thinking?" But to this day I can't explain why I prepared those two headlamps that morning. As if something in the air.. as if something was going to happen.