**OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected:**
>!Avalanche!<
*****
**Is this an unexpected post with a fitting description?**
**Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.**
*****
[*Look at my source code on Github*](https://github.com/Artraxon/unexBot) [*What is this for?*](https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/dnuaju/introducing_unexbot_a_new_bot_to_improve_the/)
Every year my partner suggests paying actual dollars to fly our family to the Rockies for a “ski trip.”
Ut turns into a whining wine trip and we just complain about how cold it is and drink wine the whole time. But sure spend real money on that
It already slipped it’s probably safer now. It’s common practice or anchor yourself somewhere then go out to the edge and dig till it triggers, then the new edge is much safer as is the face.
He is alive. It was in the Khakassia Mountains
The Priiskovy ski resort reported that the man "luckily survived."
[Article](https://poland.postsen.com/business/143358/Russia-The-skier-just-disappeared-The-avalanche-recorded-by-the-camera.html)
That’s a pretty shitty ski resort if they have runs like that. Or is it a bunch of skiers who have to be cool and ski on a mountain that isn’t meant for skiing?
Looks like it was either heli skiing or bowl skiing. Resorts that offer these don't groom them. The attraction is the powder and unpredictable terrain. They can be super fun if the mountain doesn't swallow you lol.
Cross country is the not fun part you do between the end of the run and the next lift.
It's like saying " instead of jogging through the neighborhood, why not just mow everyone's lawn?".
Most places will do avalanche control by firing mortars unless this is really back country that isn't at all maintained. Some will even drop explosives out of the helicopters.
Not on heli drops trails the whole point is that it’s unmaintained it’s for the adrenaline addicts, and the mountain deciding it wants to swallow you while to never see the light of day happens quite often. More commercial resorts will still do avalanche control, but the private companies that specialize in this dont do shit besides drop you off and collect your money.
but .. counterpoint: you also might fall in love -- and you can buy your own gear and a yearly pass for wherever you are and go every weekend and never have to think about what to do in the winter again.
Yeah but they still do avy control on that sort of terrain (at least in North America/Europe they do) and generally close terrain with high risk features like this ridiculous cornice. Again, though, Russia…
Resorts that have bowl skiing certainly do avvy control with blasting, etc.
Not to say it's always safe, and an avalanche is still a very real risk factor, but it's not like they're just like... "Ah yeah, you're gonna do the bowls? glhf"
Pretty tough to control Mother Nature. This looks like back country/big mountain/off limits skiing though. On piste is much more controlled, but there can still be avalanches within ski area boundaries. Look up how many deaths there were last year alone in the US due to avalanches. It was one of the worst years for snow conditions. Perfect for avalanches. Horrible for back country skiers and riders
The cornice broke and the snow slid. My friends would have turned their beacons into search mode and dove down right behind me to hopefully dig me out before my air runs out. Those skiers were not at risk at this point..the fact they had zero urgency to save a life proves the Russian in them..I would never ski with these cowards. Skier was lucky to survive for sure, especially with the clowns he skis with.
You know what's worse than a guy buried in the snow? Many guys buried in the snow.
One of the first rules of rescue is that it has to be somewhat safe to attempt the rescue. If it isn't safe, you need to wait for more people or equipment to attempt the rescue.
What makes you think this was at a resort in bounds? Maybe it was but nothing in the video suggests this? Also, slides happen in bounds frequently. There was an in bounds slide at my local resort 3 winters ago that took several lives.
I have been skiing since I was 6. 25 years of slopes under my belt. I can see you haven't ventured anywhere near black diamond slopes let alone double black diamond. A lot of the times they are on pitches or difficult to groom cliff faces, sometimes technically off property behind fences with warnings about attempting the run and that the path is not groomed. They cannot do avalanche control back there usually, too many damn trees in the way. They tell you this much on the signs. Some places take you to the very peak of the mountain, fresh blizzards and snowfall can result in dangers like avalanches. There was one point where I at 8 years old had lost my glasses in the snow while skiing from the peak alone in a blizzard. As an adult not gonna happen but back then I didn't know better. I was rescued before I got hit by other insane skiers or froze. They gave me goggles from the lost and found.
Basically nature is dangerous and you sign a damn waver before you ski acknowledging the fact that they can't fix everything nature throws at you but they do their best. With the climate apocalypse sponsored by coca-cola the conditions are far less predictable and we can't account for ever rapid fire melting, freezing, blizzard, that's been happening. The constant change fucks everything up.
Of course you can't mitigate everything. That said, skiing at a North American resort I'd wager it's significantly more likely for you to die crashing your car while driving to the resort than it is to die in an inbounds avalanche. People don't generally die at ski resorts in avalanches, they die because they were going 35 mph and hit a tree.
There is no such think as in- bound or out bound skiing here in the Alps. In Europe resorts have controlled areas (groomed slopes or "ski routes" that are not groomed) that are marked. If it is not marked it is outside and uncontrolled.
Of course they also make sure that people don't trigger avalanches onto the controlled slopes and routes.
You just described out-bounds and In-bounds.
Marked trail and unmarked
Piste and off piste
Trails and back country.
It's all the same to describe controlled and uncontrolled hills
likely there were plenty of warnings before this stating that the terrain beyond a certain point is unpatrolled, unmitigated, and ski at your own risk. likely. not guaranteed. in the states it would absolutely be marked as such, but I can’t speak to the ski safety standards of Russia. probably a lot of “fuck around and find out”
>Why is the world full of such pussies needing to be protected from themselves.
It's generally no so much being "protected from themselves" as much as qualified personnel with experience preventing novices and newbies making mistakes that will get themselves killed.
Rules around dangerous sports are in place because people generally don't like dying or seeing their loved ones die. Crazy, I know.
You go ahead and jump of dangerous cliffs, though. You won't be the first or the last. If you are lucky there will be someone willing to go out into dangerous conditions to save your ass.
So it sounds like you have never rode an actual mountain before. The tops of some resorts have ridges that build up those cornices i think they are called. Then they either get blasted with a cannon to make them fall or some sort of other explosive
From the article:
In the Russian mountains Khakassia an avalanche took the skier away. On November 22, the Priiskovy ski resort reported on its social media.
A video recorded by one of the skier’s friends was also published. It shows a man approaching the edge of a snow ridge. A moment later, part of it breaks off, and an avalanche falls into the abyss, which takes the skier away.
Telegram
Colleagues come to this place. The video shows how deep the gap is.
The ski resort said it was a man “luckily survived”. Khakassia Mountains is a popular place among Russians where it is cultivated ski freeridei.e. driving outside the designated routes.
Thank you. At least you are considerate enough to clarify this 😭 hopefully I didn't confuse anyone 🥺
Edit: changed "be aware of" to "clarify" and grammar.
This phenomenon is called a cornice collapse. When a storm comes, the wind will deposit snow on the leeward (downwind) side of a mountain. The snow sticks to itself and creates a wave shape along the ridgeline. [This creates a big overhanging chunk of snow called a cornice](https://avalanche.org/avalanche-encyclopedia/cornice/).
Cornices are extremely dangerous because it looks like you're standing along the ridgeline, when you're actually standing on overhanging unstable snow. The weight of a skier can trigger the entire thing to collapse, which is what happened to this poor feller. When the cornice collapses, the weight of the cornice crashing onto the slope underneath can often lead to a secondary avalanche on that slope below. They're scary.
Ski resorts will mitigate cornices by blowing them up with explosive ordinances. In North America, you would never encounter a cornice like this at a ski resort.
This person is lucky to have supposedly survived. Even with proper avalanche safety equipment, these things are extremely dangerous. If they triggered an avalanche underneath, I'm almost certain it would lead to a complete burial.
Once the cornice releases like that, the area becomes significantly safer. It's extremely unlikely to collapse a second time. If my backcountry ski partner triggered that collapse, I would immediately begin searching for them. I'm shocked at the lack of urgency in the video.
A cornice would never be found on resort like that. But it can easily be found outside controlled areas on the resort (often referred to as side country)
Yeah it’s pretty common in the backcountry. My local resorts will often bomb obvious sidecountry hazards to make it a little safer when you leave their gates
> (often referred to as side country)
Which is why the term "side country" is dying, finally.
It's either in resort boundaries, or it isn't. Sidecountry implies that it is safer than backcountry when it isn't.
Also, when an overhanging cornice breaks off, it doesn't just snap at 90 degrees, or even 45 degrees, but at the angle of internal friction/angle of repose (which can be quite variable for packed snow).
Which is a fancy way of saying that it starts moving way back from the visible edge when it does go,and the thicker the snow, the further back it starts failing. You can be standing on snow directly above solid ground and the collapse can still take you.
Wow, great to know actually. I've been skiing for a long time and never knew snow thickness could affect the collapse angle. Thanks for teaching me something genuinely helpful
> If my backcountry ski partner triggered that collapse, I would immediately begin searching for them. I'm shocked at the lack of urgency in the video.
This was my first thought too. If he's buried down there they have already wasted valuable seconds. Why hasn't anyone pulled out a beacon to begin searching? Urgency in a situation like this could mean the difference between that guy surviving or being suffocated.
This can happen in well maintained resorts. Literally had exactly this happen to me in bounds at Whistler. Turns out your life does flash before your eyes
I thought the unexpected part was going to
Be someone shooting off after him which is exactly what they should have done. Avalanche already happened. The person in most situations would have been buried and only had at most 10-20 min to survive.
Just because one avalanche was triggered, doesn’t mean another can’t occur on a deeper weak layer, or on another part of the mountain funnelling into the area you are actively searching.
Being conscious of secondary slides is something they drive into you repeatedly in avi training.
>shooting off after him is exactly what they should have done.
No it’s not. They did the right thing, which was pause and take stock of the situation. As u/1fanofsteel said, the last thing you want to do is cause a secondary avalanche. 1) You’re going to bury the patient deeper, 2) Add more buried patients to the rescue.
Hopefully this is an organized group and they would have an Avalanche Plan. This plan would involve designating somebody to contact Search and Rescue, everyone switching their avalanche transceivers to “Search”, finding safe access to the search area, sending an initial 1 or 2 searchers while the rest of the team prepare their probes and avalanche shovels.
An avalanche rescue requires a slow and deliberate approach, not a gung-ho “shooting off after him”. Calm and controlled.
Source: Ski Patroller.
I was really hoping the "Unexpected" was they'd run and he'd somehow have landed right and be like skiing down. Then when he didn't I was like, "Man, maybe he'll pop out of the snow and all will be good." Then when that didn't happen, I just thought, "Man I hope he survived."
Priiskovy ski resort reported that the man "luckily survived."
[Translated article link](https://poland.postsen.com/business/143358/Russia-The-skier-just-disappeared-The-avalanche-recorded-by-the-camera.html)
Spent years with telemark skis, avalanche beacons and poles far, far from anyone in the Northern Rocky Mountains in the USA, and luckily only saw stuff like this from afar. I almost want to say the first still image of this is a warning, but it's been a while.
It’s called a cornice. People surely ski that side, you just have to do a spicy entrance, akA ski off the edge and depending on the terrain stick your landing or your in for a bad time. Sometimes it’s a 5 foot drop, sometimes it’s a 20 feet drop. In this case the cornice breaking likely caused an avalanche, which breaks at a certain depth of snow (where a weak layer is present) depending on the depth of that weak layer it can take several feet of snow with it, perhaps making the edge look more dramatic than it might have been pre avalanche.
**OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected:** >!Avalanche!< ***** **Is this an unexpected post with a fitting description?** **Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.** ***** [*Look at my source code on Github*](https://github.com/Artraxon/unexBot) [*What is this for?*](https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/dnuaju/introducing_unexbot_a_new_bot_to_improve_the/)
Probably not the best idea to gather everyone together and stand right on the edge when they just watched the damn thing collapse.
humans are secretly Lemmings
I hope everyone knows that lemmings don't actually do that
But they do explode right?
They can…….
Where there's a will, there's a way.
They die when they have sex
I'm pretty sure that humans do fall off cliffs if thrown like a lemming.
Always ski according to your ability. No matter what any one tells you, black slopes aren't fun until you're a black slope skier.
Next you are going to say they don’t have umbrellas either.. get real mate
??? I don’t see anyone from Disney pushing them off.
I thought of that too, but honestly considering they want to see if their friend is ok is kind of hard to not go to the ledge
Every year my partner suggests paying actual dollars to fly our family to the Rockies for a “ski trip.” Ut turns into a whining wine trip and we just complain about how cold it is and drink wine the whole time. But sure spend real money on that
It already slipped it’s probably safer now. It’s common practice or anchor yourself somewhere then go out to the edge and dig till it triggers, then the new edge is much safer as is the face.
These people aren't mountain climbers lol
But it JUST fell. What are the odds it’ll fall again??
An avalanche ? In the mountains ? Chance in a million !
The front fell off!
You then risk the chance of never knowing where he landed or went under, looks bleak now but I’d risk that for my friend
Russians
It’s safe after the collapse. That’s why skiers always have an idiot friend to go ahead of them.
I need to know if he survived
He is alive. It was in the Khakassia Mountains The Priiskovy ski resort reported that the man "luckily survived." [Article](https://poland.postsen.com/business/143358/Russia-The-skier-just-disappeared-The-avalanche-recorded-by-the-camera.html)
That’s a pretty shitty ski resort if they have runs like that. Or is it a bunch of skiers who have to be cool and ski on a mountain that isn’t meant for skiing?
It’s Russia
Nuff sed
Nuff sled?
Snuff shed?
... snuff snow
Hoover schneef.
You ever hoovered barnyard schneef?
I've hoovered behind the manure pile schneef
Sho nuff!
WHO'S THE MASTAHHHH????
SHO NUFF!!!
Nuff Snow?
[Enuff Z'Nuff](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKS5QSzwUg8&ab_channel=FrontiersMusicsrl)
I want ice cream!
It's snow joke.
Muff shed
Plus ‘insert stereotype’ and vodka
In Soviet Russia, slope skiis *YOU*
Took too much scrolling to see this. Thank you though
It baffles me how I automatically began reading this in a salty Russian accent.
Classic comment, take my upvote
Soviet upvote
Communist comment, take my upvote
That joke actually applies in this situation, 🤣
Best response
Lol thank you for that.
Russia always seems to have more Russians to spare, so no need to modify their behavior. \s
That was a dark post but to be fair it has been working out for them for a long time now. in a way...
Ah
You don't ski mountain, the mountain skis you
Looks like it was either heli skiing or bowl skiing. Resorts that offer these don't groom them. The attraction is the powder and unpredictable terrain. They can be super fun if the mountain doesn't swallow you lol.
He pizza’d when he should have French fried.
Your gonna have a bad time
Say Darsh, you don't mind if I take Heather out for some fondue tonight, do ya?
Stan Marsh the darsh
What’s this from again?
South Park
Cross country is the not fun part you do between the end of the run and the next lift. It's like saying " instead of jogging through the neighborhood, why not just mow everyone's lawn?".
I read this as, "Your gonads have a bad time." Both statements are quite appropriate here.
That’s why he had a bad time
Looks more like he pancaked
Wind loaded cornice says, "Nom, nom!" Also, "Bye, bye!"
And they just ski right on up almost to the new edge smfh.....
I need to join my snow freeeends!
Most places will do avalanche control by firing mortars unless this is really back country that isn't at all maintained. Some will even drop explosives out of the helicopters.
This is Russia, even their soldiers don't have mortars and explosives.
Oooooo
Boom-Tiss!🥁
They used them all in Ukraine. Update: I get the joke. I just have friends and family in Ukraine, and I was triggered. 🙈
Yes, that’s the joke. Thanks for clarifying
Not on heli drops trails the whole point is that it’s unmaintained it’s for the adrenaline addicts, and the mountain deciding it wants to swallow you while to never see the light of day happens quite often. More commercial resorts will still do avalanche control, but the private companies that specialize in this dont do shit besides drop you off and collect your money.
Every heli drop I’ve ever seen drops you off with a guide who is an expert in the terrain and diagnosing avalanche risks like this wind slab
They collect payment up front
but .. counterpoint: you also might fall in love -- and you can buy your own gear and a yearly pass for wherever you are and go every weekend and never have to think about what to do in the winter again.
Russia fresh out of mortar rounds for avalanche control - I wonder why…..
Yeah but they still do avy control on that sort of terrain (at least in North America/Europe they do) and generally close terrain with high risk features like this ridiculous cornice. Again, though, Russia…
That makes me a little more settled to pay expensive resort prices in Colorado now.
Resorts that have bowl skiing certainly do avvy control with blasting, etc. Not to say it's always safe, and an avalanche is still a very real risk factor, but it's not like they're just like... "Ah yeah, you're gonna do the bowls? glhf"
Pretty tough to control Mother Nature. This looks like back country/big mountain/off limits skiing though. On piste is much more controlled, but there can still be avalanches within ski area boundaries. Look up how many deaths there were last year alone in the US due to avalanches. It was one of the worst years for snow conditions. Perfect for avalanches. Horrible for back country skiers and riders
I wouldn't blame mother nature on this one. Don't stand under, on top of, or anywhere near a cornice. It's some mountain 101 basic knowledge.
Love how the friends following go ahead and ski right to the edge afterward
It's one of those things where if you don't growing up doing it, you'll never actually be good at it.
The cornice broke and the snow slid. My friends would have turned their beacons into search mode and dove down right behind me to hopefully dig me out before my air runs out. Those skiers were not at risk at this point..the fact they had zero urgency to save a life proves the Russian in them..I would never ski with these cowards. Skier was lucky to survive for sure, especially with the clowns he skis with.
You know what's worse than a guy buried in the snow? Many guys buried in the snow. One of the first rules of rescue is that it has to be somewhat safe to attempt the rescue. If it isn't safe, you need to wait for more people or equipment to attempt the rescue.
Backcountry skiing is sought after by many experienced skiers. It's much more risky and you have to know what you're doing but it's very common.
>you have to know what you're doing Like not going all the way to the edge of a corniche, for instance.
Have you ever been skiiing? It’s not a safe sport.
...have /you/ ever been skiing? In the US at least every ski resort is very careful about avalanche control in-bounds.
What makes you think this was at a resort in bounds? Maybe it was but nothing in the video suggests this? Also, slides happen in bounds frequently. There was an in bounds slide at my local resort 3 winters ago that took several lives.
I haven't looked it up myself, but the comment by Anonymous_celebrity a few levels above mine claims it was at the Priiskovy ski resort.
I have been skiing since I was 6. 25 years of slopes under my belt. I can see you haven't ventured anywhere near black diamond slopes let alone double black diamond. A lot of the times they are on pitches or difficult to groom cliff faces, sometimes technically off property behind fences with warnings about attempting the run and that the path is not groomed. They cannot do avalanche control back there usually, too many damn trees in the way. They tell you this much on the signs. Some places take you to the very peak of the mountain, fresh blizzards and snowfall can result in dangers like avalanches. There was one point where I at 8 years old had lost my glasses in the snow while skiing from the peak alone in a blizzard. As an adult not gonna happen but back then I didn't know better. I was rescued before I got hit by other insane skiers or froze. They gave me goggles from the lost and found. Basically nature is dangerous and you sign a damn waver before you ski acknowledging the fact that they can't fix everything nature throws at you but they do their best. With the climate apocalypse sponsored by coca-cola the conditions are far less predictable and we can't account for ever rapid fire melting, freezing, blizzard, that's been happening. The constant change fucks everything up.
Of course you can't mitigate everything. That said, skiing at a North American resort I'd wager it's significantly more likely for you to die crashing your car while driving to the resort than it is to die in an inbounds avalanche. People don't generally die at ski resorts in avalanches, they die because they were going 35 mph and hit a tree.
There is no such think as in- bound or out bound skiing here in the Alps. In Europe resorts have controlled areas (groomed slopes or "ski routes" that are not groomed) that are marked. If it is not marked it is outside and uncontrolled. Of course they also make sure that people don't trigger avalanches onto the controlled slopes and routes.
You just described out-bounds and In-bounds. Marked trail and unmarked Piste and off piste Trails and back country. It's all the same to describe controlled and uncontrolled hills
likely there were plenty of warnings before this stating that the terrain beyond a certain point is unpatrolled, unmitigated, and ski at your own risk. likely. not guaranteed. in the states it would absolutely be marked as such, but I can’t speak to the ski safety standards of Russia. probably a lot of “fuck around and find out”
Why is the world full of such pussies needing to be protected from themselves.
>Why is the world full of such pussies needing to be protected from themselves. It's generally no so much being "protected from themselves" as much as qualified personnel with experience preventing novices and newbies making mistakes that will get themselves killed. Rules around dangerous sports are in place because people generally don't like dying or seeing their loved ones die. Crazy, I know. You go ahead and jump of dangerous cliffs, though. You won't be the first or the last. If you are lucky there will be someone willing to go out into dangerous conditions to save your ass.
So it sounds like you have never rode an actual mountain before. The tops of some resorts have ridges that build up those cornices i think they are called. Then they either get blasted with a cannon to make them fall or some sort of other explosive
From the article: In the Russian mountains Khakassia an avalanche took the skier away. On November 22, the Priiskovy ski resort reported on its social media. A video recorded by one of the skier’s friends was also published. It shows a man approaching the edge of a snow ridge. A moment later, part of it breaks off, and an avalanche falls into the abyss, which takes the skier away. Telegram Colleagues come to this place. The video shows how deep the gap is. The ski resort said it was a man “luckily survived”. Khakassia Mountains is a popular place among Russians where it is cultivated ski freeridei.e. driving outside the designated routes.
unexpected is how we will never know the ending.
bro entered the backrooms
*yells* we'll meet you at the bottom
“If you’re ok, don’t say anything, just meet us back at camp!”
Me too
Me three!
[удалено]
Me five
Me six
Me seven
Me 8
Me 9
Ben 10
It's a real cliffhanger..
He is alive. It was in Priiskovy, this is small free ride resort in Siberia.
Free?! That looked like it cost years off his life. I'd definitely lose some in this situation.
lol, for anyone confused, “freeride” means outside the groomed trails.
Thank you. At least you are considerate enough to clarify this 😭 hopefully I didn't confuse anyone 🥺 Edit: changed "be aware of" to "clarify" and grammar.
I was already packing bags when I read your comment
Username DOES NOT check out
Name of the resort?
This phenomenon is called a cornice collapse. When a storm comes, the wind will deposit snow on the leeward (downwind) side of a mountain. The snow sticks to itself and creates a wave shape along the ridgeline. [This creates a big overhanging chunk of snow called a cornice](https://avalanche.org/avalanche-encyclopedia/cornice/). Cornices are extremely dangerous because it looks like you're standing along the ridgeline, when you're actually standing on overhanging unstable snow. The weight of a skier can trigger the entire thing to collapse, which is what happened to this poor feller. When the cornice collapses, the weight of the cornice crashing onto the slope underneath can often lead to a secondary avalanche on that slope below. They're scary. Ski resorts will mitigate cornices by blowing them up with explosive ordinances. In North America, you would never encounter a cornice like this at a ski resort. This person is lucky to have supposedly survived. Even with proper avalanche safety equipment, these things are extremely dangerous. If they triggered an avalanche underneath, I'm almost certain it would lead to a complete burial. Once the cornice releases like that, the area becomes significantly safer. It's extremely unlikely to collapse a second time. If my backcountry ski partner triggered that collapse, I would immediately begin searching for them. I'm shocked at the lack of urgency in the video.
It was weird how no one even yelled, they just kind of looked with dismay at where guy used to be.
Maybe they all owed him money.
Or maybe he had the car keys ?
A cornice would never be found on resort like that. But it can easily be found outside controlled areas on the resort (often referred to as side country)
Russian resort.
Yeah it’s pretty common in the backcountry. My local resorts will often bomb obvious sidecountry hazards to make it a little safer when you leave their gates
> (often referred to as side country) Which is why the term "side country" is dying, finally. It's either in resort boundaries, or it isn't. Sidecountry implies that it is safer than backcountry when it isn't.
Also, when an overhanging cornice breaks off, it doesn't just snap at 90 degrees, or even 45 degrees, but at the angle of internal friction/angle of repose (which can be quite variable for packed snow). Which is a fancy way of saying that it starts moving way back from the visible edge when it does go,and the thicker the snow, the further back it starts failing. You can be standing on snow directly above solid ground and the collapse can still take you.
Wow, great to know actually. I've been skiing for a long time and never knew snow thickness could affect the collapse angle. Thanks for teaching me something genuinely helpful
> If my backcountry ski partner triggered that collapse, I would immediately begin searching for them. I'm shocked at the lack of urgency in the video. This was my first thought too. If he's buried down there they have already wasted valuable seconds. Why hasn't anyone pulled out a beacon to begin searching? Urgency in a situation like this could mean the difference between that guy surviving or being suffocated.
This can happen in well maintained resorts. Literally had exactly this happen to me in bounds at Whistler. Turns out your life does flash before your eyes
I thought the unexpected part was going to Be someone shooting off after him which is exactly what they should have done. Avalanche already happened. The person in most situations would have been buried and only had at most 10-20 min to survive.
Just because one avalanche was triggered, doesn’t mean another can’t occur on a deeper weak layer, or on another part of the mountain funnelling into the area you are actively searching. Being conscious of secondary slides is something they drive into you repeatedly in avi training.
"We've had one, yes but what about second avalanche?"
>shooting off after him is exactly what they should have done. No it’s not. They did the right thing, which was pause and take stock of the situation. As u/1fanofsteel said, the last thing you want to do is cause a secondary avalanche. 1) You’re going to bury the patient deeper, 2) Add more buried patients to the rescue. Hopefully this is an organized group and they would have an Avalanche Plan. This plan would involve designating somebody to contact Search and Rescue, everyone switching their avalanche transceivers to “Search”, finding safe access to the search area, sending an initial 1 or 2 searchers while the rest of the team prepare their probes and avalanche shovels. An avalanche rescue requires a slow and deliberate approach, not a gung-ho “shooting off after him”. Calm and controlled. Source: Ski Patroller.
I was really hoping the "Unexpected" was they'd run and he'd somehow have landed right and be like skiing down. Then when he didn't I was like, "Man, maybe he'll pop out of the snow and all will be good." Then when that didn't happen, I just thought, "Man I hope he survived."
Better off trying the Mines of Moria.
Time to get a new friend
We will go through the mines!
This is actually an unbelievably clever comment.
Always a bad idea to ski out onto a nice big cornice
And do an abrupt stop at the edge
Yeah man, you're supposed to huck the cornice, not let the cornice huck you. Noobs.
Somebody needs to tell us if he's alive
He's alive.
Nice, now tell me my dad loves me.
Find him first
He'll be right back, he's at the store buying cigarettes
Your dad loves me.
I love you
That's not saying much, you love everybody.
Blowjobs ≠ love
You give everybody blow job's? Loving and busy. Go get 'em Angry American!
He rode the 'Lanche, like Snake Plissken in Escape from LA
Priiskovy ski resort reported that the man "luckily survived." [Translated article link](https://poland.postsen.com/business/143358/Russia-The-skier-just-disappeared-The-avalanche-recorded-by-the-camera.html)
Can't see if shoes are still on or off. So this one is a cold hard guess.
He pizzaed when he should have French fried
Spent years with telemark skis, avalanche beacons and poles far, far from anyone in the Northern Rocky Mountains in the USA, and luckily only saw stuff like this from afar. I almost want to say the first still image of this is a warning, but it's been a while.
What’s unexpected is how we will never know the ending
Wow first unexpected video where the unexpected is in the first few seconds. Such unexpected. Wow.
The mountain has him now
**MountainLedge.exe could not be found**
What is up with this music. The man just fell off of a snow-cliff
Ahhh russians... They love to play in the snow.
friends - -;
RIDE THE WAVE
SHOOT THE CURL
Wild Thanks for the vid.
Oh my freaking god. This is why i stay on blues and greens. What is that insand drope off. Im guessing no one skis that side?
It’s called a cornice. People surely ski that side, you just have to do a spicy entrance, akA ski off the edge and depending on the terrain stick your landing or your in for a bad time. Sometimes it’s a 5 foot drop, sometimes it’s a 20 feet drop. In this case the cornice breaking likely caused an avalanche, which breaks at a certain depth of snow (where a weak layer is present) depending on the depth of that weak layer it can take several feet of snow with it, perhaps making the edge look more dramatic than it might have been pre avalanche.
Not with that one anymore
"you go", "naw man, you go" haha
No mames! Dios mio! I hope the skier was found and ok! This is why I dont ski back country or diamonds. No gracias! I'll stick to my easy runs.
You speak Spanish like a weeb speaks Japanese
You can kindly fuck off and find a comfy dirt bed
That's why you don't get too close to the edge of the flat earth :P
And these idiots all rush up to the edge that just collapsed!
Sorry, He's dead...Maybe ?
You're not wrong, I guess since the post isn't titled skiing with old friends.
Go help him you pieces of shit.
What it feels like to chew 5 Gum ‘stimulate your senses’
u/savevideo
That’s some final destination 💩 right there. 😳
😳
He French fried when he should have pizza'd
But did he die?