The 1997 Thredbo disaster was recalled 25 years later, with skiers commemorating the landslide by carrying flares down the mountain.
Mark Pigott remembers the cries of black crows breaking a heavy silence after the Thredbo disaster. Pigott, an Olympic skier, watched from afar as rescue workers searched through debris in the days after the landslide that claimed 18 lives at the ski resort in July 1997. “Whenever they thought they could hear something, they’d say, …