This is some crazy footage out of France from just a few weeks ago, pre-pandemic. This skier, who isn’t named in the video posted by a site called Viral Hog, takes off down an out-of-bounds run and his GoPro camera catches the avalanche barreling down the mountain behind him before he pulls his airbag.
“Here is the avalanche that happened to me with an impressive speed without my seeing it,” reads the video’s description. “It was in March 2020 in France. “It was a mix between a windstorm that lifted me and a huge ocean wave that shook me all over the place. I was very scared, the reflex of pulling on the handle of my airbag saved my life. This avalanche was triggered by a person at the top of the mountain who did not wait for me to finish my off-piste descent and who did not come to my rescue by following. It is an experience that I will never forget.” Yeah, that would definitely be hard to forget.
