The sad irony is that Winfrey had set up an unprecedented safetybarrier in a country where more than a third of young women are sexually abused, with barbed wire fences, a high-tech entry system and all-female security.
All the deaths involved people skiing outside the marked runs and in one fatal incident in the Savoie region this week a skier fell 80 metres over a cliff after he and three friends climbed over a safetybarrier that had been built to prevent skiers going into the area .
Besides clean-up of materials, the company plans to remove unused utilities in the shaft, repair any damaged structures, install a water ring to control entry of water into the shaft and prevent ice from forming in winter, install a new power cable and a metal brattice between the eastern and western half of the shafts to provide a physical barrier, improving safety and functionality, company officials said.
It also improved the structure so that the van can get top marks in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's new frontal crash test, which hits a fixed barrier at an angle.