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Pike River families blindsided by acceptance of plan to end mine re-entry
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Pike River inherently unstable and can t have unlimited budget - Andrew Little
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Dougie Vipond overcame his phobia for latest Adventure Show special Adventure Show presenter Dougie Vipond reveals how he had to tackle his phobia of going off piste for the new series of the BBC Scotland programme. With ski resorts closed, long-term presenter, Dougie Vipond, tackles his phobia of going off-piste by taking to the hills around Glenmore in the Cairngorms. After a frightening experience 11 years ago while filming for the show off-piste in the Alps, Vipond reveals a crippling fear of leaving behind the safety of ski tows and resort slopes. Vipond is joined by Zoe Laird, from Advie, Speyside, who has also been scared off back country skiing by a past experience. With able encouragement from Alison Thacker, one of Scotland’s top ski instructors, the pair find their feet.
A memorial and information centre would also be built to commemorate the 29 men killed in 2010 and tell the story of the tragedy at the West Coast coal mine. Gawn said recovery teams had reached a Rocsil plug 2.2km up the mine’s access tunnel (or drift). Rocsil is a concrete-like sealing resin that can be sprayed and then hardens to make a tunnel air-tight.
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Pike River Recovery Agency chief executive Dave Gawn says cleaning up the mine site is expected to take about three months. The agency was given a $51 million budget to recover the 2.3km drift to find any evidence as to what caused the 2010 explosions and recover any bodies found. So far, no bodies have been discovered.