POV Avalanche Burial and Rescue
Oct 02, 2009 · 09:47 PM
What better way to get ready for the ski season than to remind yourself that you could die doing it?
This amazing video, captured by the victim’s helmet cam, shows what it’s like to get caught in an avalanche—and how lucky you have to be to get rescued. From the video description:
This was a decent sized avalanche. 1,500 feet the dude fell in a little over 20 seconds. The crown was about 1 - 1.5m. The chute that he got sucked through to the skier’s right was flanked on either side by cliff bands that were about 30m tall. He luckily didn’t break any bones and obviously didn’t hit anything on the run out.
Holy crap. My lungs started to seize up around 4:00 listening to the poor guy’s muffled noises. Ski safely!
