What its like to get caught in an avalanche.

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What its like to get caught in an avalanche.

Post by Knails » Thu Sep 24, 2009 7:08 pm

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Helmet cam footage of a guy getting pulled under an avalanche and being rescued.

Pretty stunning really.

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Re: What its like to get caught in an avalanche.

Post by MountieXXL » Thu Sep 24, 2009 7:21 pm

Yikes. I used to go skiing in out-of-bounds all the time, back when I could afford going skiing ^^ This one time in the French alps there was fresh powder overnight and we had the awesomest run, but the next day after the sun had shone non-stop during the daytime a couple of New Zealanders got buried and died, pretty much right where we were skiing the day before.. brr.

(Avalanche happened in that whole area below the cliff-side that lift-line is going up)
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I mean, it's all windy stairs. I'm not being funny.

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Re: What its like to get caught in an avalanche.

Post by Fester » Fri Sep 25, 2009 10:19 am

one very lucky man
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Re: What its like to get caught in an avalanche.

Post by LazyEagle » Sat Sep 26, 2009 12:41 pm

that is one scary vid!
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Re: What its like to get caught in an avalanche.

Post by MuG » Sat Sep 26, 2009 4:19 pm

Nice find knails! Interesting vid. Damned lucky!
Close brush with death there mountie. Crazy! Reminds me of a party I went to a few years back near the cliffs of moher. After leaving the party about 6-7am we parked at the seashore lookin at the cliffs for a bit :greentoke: . But a couple of hours later 2 people drove right off the cliffs we were lookin at :o We wondered was it some dodgy fiend who'd had a bit much from the party but rang the people who hosted and thankfully twas no-one we knew. Crazy shit!
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