The New Yorker, April 13, 1957 P. 113
REPORTER AT LARGE about avalanches in the Austrian Alps, avalanche victims & what is being done in the way of avalanche control. Zurs, a cluster of high-prized hotels, souvenir shops, & ski tows, is situated in a valley 600 ft. above sea level, & surrounded by cliffs, & it proabaly had a higher incidence of broken bones than any other community its size on earth (the village's two doctors appear to do nothing except set fractures), but they say that this is the result of skiing accidents alone. Zurs, they maintain, is absolutely safe from natural catastrophes. Investigation reveals, however, that several avalanches -fairly slow ones-do come down there every year, always in the same spot. One of the arrives regularly in the late spring in front of the Hotel Alpensore-Post, & another arrives in the empty lot between the Hotel Lorunser & the Zurser Hof; guests at these hotels have been known to ask for a room with an avalanche view.
