Thursday, October 8, 2009

Avalanche buried skier then Rescued...All Caught On Tape.

A skier gets buried in an avalanche, he is rescued only 4 and a half minutes later. Everything get caught on film by the video camera attached on his helmet.
"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.
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He also got very lucky to be honest. In the time that he's buried, you can hear his breathing already accelerate. The ruffling noise back and forth is his chest rising and falling and the noise that his jacket makes. The intermittent whimpering noise you hear is him trying to swallow and get some air since the avalung wasn't fully in his mouth and instead just to the corner of his mouth.



via: likecool.com

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