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Aspects of the movement in the alpine environment, with emphasis on altitude sickness
Szotkowská, Lucie ; Kašpar, Ladislav (advisor) ; Pokorný, Ladislav (referee)
This thesis is focused on aspects of mountains activities as a ski touring, hiking and mountaineering. This field of sports are associated with the risk of altitude sickness. The thesis examines key parameters that contribute to the emergence of altitude sickness. The other examinees parameters are weather conditions, influence of high altitude, physical training and physiological manifestations of individual person. The aim of this thesis was find out which sports are the most affected by high altitude sickness. And what are the most common symptoms of altitude sickness. It was based on the literature and questionnaire.
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Analysis of Avalanche Danger Awareness in the Krkonoše Mountains by ski mountaineers
Fricová, Pavlína ; Brtník, Tomáš (advisor) ; Jindra, Matouš (referee)
Title: Analysis of Avalanche danger awareness at Giant Mountains by backcountry skiers. Objectives: Goal of bachelor thesis is analysis of awareness and foreknowledge about danger of avalanches occurrence, avalanche rescue and above all avalanche prevention at both advanced and beginning backcoutnry skiers who sets to Giant Mountains to do skitouring tours. Methods: The practical part of the thesis has a character of quantitative research. A questionnaire was carried out on a sample of backcountry skiers of all levels. Based on the analysis of the obtained data from the quantitative research, the awareness of the avalanche danger among the backcountry skiers in the Giant Mountains was evaluated. Results: Based on the obtained data was found that 40 % of the total number of backcountry skiers in the Giant Mountains visited them for the purpose of skitouring for the first time this year. Most of the respondents stated that they were aware of the risk of avalanche danger. Nevertheless, 77.5 % of the interviewed were moving on the open terrain during the skitouring tour, of which 25 % were beginners who did not have sufficient experience with it. Only 25 % had avalanche safety equipment, but only 60 % of them performed mutual control of avalanche rescue beacons Conclusion: Based on the results of the...
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Experience and risk sensation in skitouring
Hlava, Daniel ; Kalkusová, Lucie (advisor) ; Baláš, Jiří (referee)
Title: Experience and risk sensation in ski touring Objectives: Main goal of this thesis is the analysis of experience and risk sensation of people practicing ski touring. To discover how athletes perceive these conditions and fears during the given activity, how does it influence their behavior and what are they doing to minimize the risks. Methods: All the data presented in the empirical part of this thesis were collected through semi-structured interview and a questionnaire with closed questions. There were 44 participants in the study between the age of 20 and 51. The data obtained through an online questionnaire were evaluated using Microsoft Office Excel 2010. The outcome values were entered into a clear table and further used for a more detailed analysis. The interviews were recorded using a tape recorder. The audio recordings were transcribed into a text version. After that the document was evaluated and rephrased into a more comprehensible form and divided into categories using coding method, which helped simplify the text manipulation. Results: The results of our work show that ski touring is a very emotional activity. Ski tourists experience many emotional, aesthetic and socially cultural experiences. Furthermore, the respondents also experience the state of optimum flow, which becomes...
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Aspects of the movement in the alpine environment, with emphasis on altitude sickness
Szotkowská, Lucie ; Kašpar, Ladislav (advisor) ; Pokorný, Ladislav (referee)
This thesis is focused on aspects of mountains activities as a ski touring, hiking and mountaineering. This field of sports are associated with the risk of altitude sickness. The thesis examines key parameters that contribute to the emergence of altitude sickness. The other examinees parameters are weather conditions, influence of high altitude, physical training and physiological manifestations of individual person. The aim of this thesis was find out which sports are the most affected by high altitude sickness. And what are the most common symptoms of altitude sickness. It was based on the literature and questionnaire.
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