Avalanche caught on head cam

Just watched it on my home computer. Thats really quite terrifying, doesnt look like much going past him initially then wooosh....hes under.

Good spot again Snappzzz
Scary, scary stuff.
He really didn't want that helicopter did he!

Watching that made me feel weird ,as if someone was sitting on my chest.
Glad about the happy ending

Ranchero_1979 wrote:Digging with skis, another well prepared group. Would never ski in group that didn't have, shovel, probe, transceiver and ideally skins.

If you go the Youtube upload, you will see that both he and the rest of his group did have all the proper equipment and clearly used it effectively to locate him and dig him out within a short period of time. He also confirms that the guy digging with the ski was a passer-by who stopped to help out.

While it may not have been wise to ski that particular area that day, the rest seems to have been almost textbook with the guy creating a space in front of his face with his hands as the slide stopped, remained extraordinarily calm considering the circumstances, his friends very quickly located him using the proper equipment and were able to dig him out avoiding a tragedy. :wink:

Now if you want to see real stupidity and a real tragedy, look up "Russian Zorb" on Youtube :evil: :evil: :evil: One guy died and the other was very seriously injured.

Yep, the GoPro will capture the death of some of its users.

Why did it take 5 minutes to start shouting? Not a peep out of him as he fell over never mind buried?

Iceman wrote:Why did it take 5 minutes to start shouting? Not a peep out of him as he fell over never mind buried?

Shock maybe 8)

Yes a lucky guy for sure. As I think a few people have posted - no evidence of safety gear, so only luck that saved him. You just can't rely on being dug out by skis. I saw some data from the French fire brigade, on average the firemen were getting people dug out with the right equipment in 11mins, without a probe it went up to 25mins, without a shovel or probe just the transceiver up to 2hrs!!!!and these are fit and trained guys. You just have to have it all and know how to use it.