You knew it would happen – with the explosion in popularity of helmet cameras, we would be seeing some amazing first person footage of people encountering some really bad situations in the backcountry.
Case in point – this POV footage of a skier triggering, being swept away in, and rescued from a fast moving avalanche in Haines, Alaska. Immediately after dropping in on an unstable slope, we see a web of fracture lines unfold, and a cloud of white as the skier is swept into a fast moving avalanche that carries him 1,500 feet in just under 20 seconds. Luckily for him articles of his clothing that fell off in the slide marked where he was buried, making for a quick rescue in just under 4 minutes and 30 seconds.
Haines, Alaska Skier Burial & Rescue
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