シャドーイング練習: What causes avalanches, and can you survive them? - Simon Trautman - YouTubeで英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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In February 2012, pro skier Elyse Saugstad was carving through the slopes of the Cascade Mountains when a crack formed in the snowpack above her.
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In February 2012, pro skier Elyse Saugstad was carving through the slopes of the Cascade Mountains when a crack formed in the snowpack above her.
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Before she was fully engulfed by a 5,000-ton wall of snow, Elyse heard “AVALANCHE!” just in time to react with a lifesaving maneuver.
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So, how could she survive this crushing snow surge?
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Avalanches are the rapid descension of snow, ice, rock, or a combination of these down a slope.
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They can be destructive natural disasters and personal tragedies: in the United States alone, avalanches kill an average of 27 people annually.
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These alpine nightmares don’t just awaken out of nowhere; they need three specific conditions.
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First, the mountain needs to have the right slope, typically between 30 and 45 degrees.
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This is shallow enough to allow snow to build up on the slope, yet steep enough to provide enough potential energy for movement.
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Second, they typically need a layer of sturdy snow deposited over a weak or unstable layer, or what’s sometimes called “something over nothing.” Take the Cascade Mountain avalanche, where recent heavy storms deposited a nearly 1-meter-deep slab of fresh snow.
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Below this sat a thin layer of surface hoar.
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These are delicate, feathery ice crystals that form when water vapor in the air rapidly freezes on the surface of snow, almost like dew in the wintertime.
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Finally, avalanches need a trigger, something to collapse the weak layer and put the snow in motion.
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A trigger can be natural, such as heavy snowfall, strong winds, rainfall, or even other avalanches.
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Or they can be human-caused, like the surface impact of skiers or snowmobilers.
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Since fractures can propagate quickly through the snowpack, triggers can originate hundreds of meters away— upstream, downstream, or even adjacent to the avalanche’s path.
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Once in motion, how quickly an avalanche moves depends on the slope’s steepness, its exposure or vegetation cover, terrain roughness, and the type and amount of snow involved.
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For example, dry, light, and loosely bonded snow tends to travel fast, forming a powder cloud as it moves.
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In contrast, wet snow avalanches, caused by water moving through the snowpack, travel more slowly but are much denser and can be particularly destructive.
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Larger avalanches can travel more than 160 kilometers per hour, breaking trees, destroying buildings, and burying roadways.
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In 1970, one particularly massive avalanche consisting of 50 to 100 million cubic meters of glacial ice, snow, mud, and rock reached speeds of over 300 kilometers per hour.
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This avalanche proved to be the deadliest in history, engulfing an entire Peruvian town and killing 18,000 people.
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Avalanches aren't always this large, but even smaller ones can be dangerous for anyone caught in their path.
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As snow rushes downhill, it can behave like both a solid and a liquid, making its movement difficult to predict.
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At the fastest-moving front, surface snow moves faster than the snow beneath, pulling victims deep into the snowpack and scattering them across wide areas, making rescue difficult.
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Once an avalanche slows, the snow loses its fluid-like properties and compacts, leaving victims immobilized and unable to escape on their own.
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For these reasons, the best way to survive an avalanche is to avoid one altogether.
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Thankfully, at most ski resorts, parks, and even highways, avalanche workers mitigate risk by continuously monitoring the weather, stability of the snowpack, and human activity.
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If a threat is detected, they'll close terrain and may even intentionally trigger a controlled avalanche with explosives or artillery.
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However, there are regions where avalanche risk is not actively mitigated, known as the backcountry.
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Here, you are responsible for managing your own risk.
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Local avalanche centers provide avalanche forecasts, and anyone entering the backcountry should understand them, be properly trained, and carry essential rescue gear.
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And ultimately, in high-hazard terrain, there's no way to completely eliminate risk.
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The group at the Cascade Mountains consisted of highly experienced skiers.
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Yet the area was very exposed, and following a large storm, the avalanche danger forecast was elevated.
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In the end, three skiers lost their lives.
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But not Elyse, as she was able to deploy an inflatable airbag.
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These devices are imperfect and a last line of defense, yet can keep a victim closer to the surface, improving their chance of rescue should disaster strike.
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このビデオでは、プロスキーヤーのエリーゼ・ソーグスタッドが雪崩から生き延びた実体験を通じて、雪崩の原因やその危険性について解説しています。雪崩は、雪や氷、岩などが急速に斜面を移動する自然現象で、毎年アメリカでは平均27人が命を落とす重大な事故です。エリーゼのケースを通じて、雪崩がどのように発生し、またどのようにそれを回避するかについての貴重な知識を得ることができます。
日常的コミュニケーションのためのトップ5のフレーズ
- 「AVALANCHE！」 - 雪崩が起きる際に叫ぶ警告の声です。
- 「something over nothing」 - 不安定な層の上に強固な雪の層がある状態を表現します。
- 「controlled avalanche」 - 意図的に引き起こされた雪崩を指し、リスクを管理する手段です。
- 「high-hazard terrain」 - 危険度が高い地形のことを指します。
- 「rescue gear」 - 救助用具、雪崩遭遇時に必要な装備です。
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シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。