Not a situation you want to find yourself in. Photo: @m.goatmanthe4th//screenshot
Falling into a crevasse has to be one of a skier’s worst nightmares — up there with avalanches. Tumbling into the abyss of an ice fissure has proven deadly for skiers and mountaineers.
A video online from last summer (that GoPro recently re-posted) shows Canadian skier Brian Kun Baek’s near brush with death due to a hidden crevasse.
As Kun Baek skis down Mount Baker in Washington state, the crevasse suddenly appears before him. And he wasn’t going full speed, slightly braking as the edge drops away below.
But in a stroke of luck, he had the perfect amount of speed — and fortunately a lower edge on the other side of the crevasse — to barely make it across unscathed.
Kun Baek got back on his skis within seconds, let out a “Wooo!,” and continued skiing down the mountain as if nothing had happened.
“I was aiming for what I thought was the second snow bridge, but it ended up being a bit further skier’s right of where I turned,” Kun Baek explained on his Instagram. “It’s a good thing I was able to react quickly. Point the sticks down, a little pop off the lip, send it over the abyss.”
Even though he narrowly missed what could have been a deadly fall, Kun Baek was still able to show some humor.
“Pretty bummed that I didn’t land it, ’cause I ain’t hitting that again,” he wrote.
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