JACKSTAR AND PEGLEG - WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER RIDE A SNOWBOARD OFF PISTE ALONE
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ม.ค. 2013
- Flaine, France. it had been snowing all night, and we woke to bluebird skies and about 500mm of fresh powder on the mountain. Snowboarding Nirvana. The crevasse was only a few hundred yards off piste, and pretty much completely covered, invisible until i was right on it, and I wasn't quick enough to avoid it. My son Jack was a hero, tried to free me at first, and did not hesitate to raise the alarm and get help. Three english doctors that we had just passed on the mountain came to my rescue, took care of Jack, and helped dig me out. I am eternally grateful to you. I hope you enjoyed the rest of your holiday, and the perfect conditions continued.
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Legends say that if he fell through he would have discovered a land of dinosaurs
Davin Bradley ice age 😂
Hheheehehehhehehehehdh
Or fall straight down to Narnia.
And then the army of darkness was again unleashed
Yes that brobably gonna happen
When the audio said “schrchsoldskdroddkwschkdeeixgod”
I felt that
Wolfey • if ur talking about the screeching of the snow then facts me too
Wolfey • please shut up
@@joshiewashe9486 no u
I’m sorry but I had to point out u said ‘god’ at the end
ッReVeRs fuck of weeeeeb
"why you should always be able to touch your toes"
I thought the same thing. That's the only way he's going to get out by himself but on the other hand that was super risky of him because he could have ended up sliding down the crevasse
@@ChrisG1392 there was a metal grating of some sort at the bottom (visible at 3:48), it must have just snowed a lot that's why it was so deep.
I would be fucked
@@Kat_17-77 same 😬
@@gringojr1900 I thought it was the ski poles from the girls who came to help?
The hole beneath is horrifying
it actually looks like a bottomless pit, I wish the dude would explain what that was or some shit
@@SoakieCat Me too, but if I were in his situation I’d probably be busy having a panic attack.
@@saturnyne_ prolly cause u a sensitive weeb
@@SoakieCat Agreed. He is a sensitive weeb.
@@jogaming55555 and y’all are worthless pieces of shit. World evens out
This video game me extreme anxiety. Being upside down in an enclose space where you can't pull your body out of, just scares the hell out of me
Me too!
Same...but chenge game to gave cuz it seems like video-game
Same
Yeah and it's what seems like a really big drop to a cave whear if you fall down you whoud probably broken something or died
You should Search about a story happend in utah with john jones...i think it was nutti putti accident ^^
He was so close to going to the wonderland
Whahahahaha
Hahahahaha
no
Yes
You made me smile
I paused the video so he can rest a little
sov19871987 yea
Wow so original
This is big brain time
Best comment
You sick monster
The next morning on the news
BREAKING NEWS WE HAVE OFFICIALLY DISCOVERED THE UNDERWORLD
His board legit saved him wtf
nio right
and he said why we should not ride snow bored
kaneki ken309 no He said that’s why you shouldn’t snowboard alone
kaneki ken309 You're a fucking moron
kaneki ken309 nah you just have no brain and type like a fuckwit who has a screw loose up there.
I have claustrophobia just watching this
Lol i nearly died watching this. So fcking scary
I’m laying down rn and when he got stuck it made me sit up like I was trying to get up
Same
Same
same bruh hella sketch
Wow! So lucky the hole didn't fill up when you fell in. 😱 Lucky lucky
@@kriss663 no
@@kriss663 no you silly boy 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
@@kriss663 you're wrong *and* stupid
@@charliehovil4365 yes
@@charliehovil4365 no it's incredibly deep actually
The whole time I was leaning forward trying to get my head out of that hole.
I’ve been stuck in the exact same way! Except below the snow was a running stream and my head and shoulders were in the water.
I was lucky enough to be able to get my self out as no one was around me and passers by wouldn’t have been able to see me.
I reported the incident to ski patrol and they did nothing to rope off the area.
Glad you were ok 👍🏼
That's just a lie
@@fressejetzt840 your just a lie
whats wrong with believing in god ?
What part is a lie?
@@geolocarta all of it
thank you youtube for recommending this to me the day i’m going skiing
With sksi you will clip out
Your welcome
sameeee
The day I just returned from my craziest freeride😄
I feel like I’m coochie mane in 2006
I was literally freaking out just watching this
Ma words
I was literally keeping calm watching this.
Literally??
My guy legit almost fell straight to hell
that is so scary
Sean Ludwig yup, imagine that, i got a stomachache
sean cena true
Yea
Yep
I know
my best friend in the 90's died that way. he drown in a creek, exact same situation you were in but water. eagle crest Juneau Alaska
reni chino R.I.P
I’m sorry 😐
im very sorry for your loss
I’m sorry for your loss
Sry to hear man
man, as soon as the little pocket of snow came into view, i could tell that was the whole he was going through. Amazing he didn't go all the way through
What if the guy that was helping him just unbuckled his feet and just said
"Remember that day jim!"
Rezxets Well Played! 😂
"long live the king!"
That was his son
Lucky he had snowboard and not skis...
ählämit sosmään • 46 vuotta sitten lmao
Skiing is shit anyway
@@lechy_9573 No, skiing is much better AND snowboarderd ruin all snow
ählämit sosmään • 46 vuotta sitten the skis would detach and he could just climb out
@@hhhhh4769 suami
There are a lot of holes (not crevasse, it's not ice, it's rock) in Flaine, it's well known and there are a lot of signs saying not to go off tracks if you don't know the terrain. Most of them are "secured" with cables and fences, but there's no sign right before. They are around 3m to 30m deep.
yes indeed: lots and lots of holes in Flaine as this is limestone underneath ...
Wow 30 meters deep!
So im guessing that was a cable in this video?
I have been in flaine snowboarding no way
Matthieu Lapierre this is true was just in flaine myslef
When I broke my femur skiing, a kid maybe 9 or 10 asked if I was okay. He flew down the rest of the mountain and helped get me out of there. Thank goodness someone saw me as I was alone
recently broke my elbow snowboarding alone also. i fell literally 200-300 feet from the ski lift at the bottom of the hill. i must have sat there in pain screaming for 5-10 minutes. probably hundreds of ppl ski'd right by me. i eventually had to get up on my own and WALK down the rest of the hill holding my snowboard in one arm and my broken elbow dangling on the other side. fuck ppl.
1:11 in this moment he know he fkd up !
Man the conditions looked so good... It's warmed up here past few days in the 60 degree area... RIP snow.
This happened to me at Whistler in 2010. I was alone and off-piste in a glade. I missed making a drop/hard left turn and I fell. I slid head first, on my back (imagine doing that!) for about 5-10 metres into a hole. I was on my back so I didn't see or even feel it happening - it was so fast. I found myself hanging by my board, upside down, helmet slightly touching the stream. I didn't know what happened. All I could see was my board stradling a hole with a little bit of light getting through. There was at least a metre of powder and I sunk well below the surface of the snow - my board would not have been visible. I was hyper-ventilating and confused. I hung there and composed myself for quite a long time. I was glad I wasn't hurt. I didn't want to do anything to get hurt - that was my first priority. My neck could have been broken. I tried to release my binding straps but the tension was too much as I was hanging upside down. I tried to take my boot off but the inner boot had a tension fitting and I couldn't release it. I was 51 years old then - good shape but I wasn't young. I eventually was able to wiggle the front of the board to it was lower than the back. I threw my arms up and reached trying to release the binding straps. I was able release one strap. Then the other. I was doing the splits - one foot hanging from the board, the other towards the ground. I was eventually able to release my rear foot from the binding. I fell in the water. The stream was only a foot deep. I climbed out of this hole. All of this took about an hour. I rode a gondola down the mountain. I dried my clothes in the condo unit. I cried a bit. I texted my friends. I don't know if my phone would have worked in that hole. I did not want to take it out of my pocket and risk dropping it into the stream. I really don't think anyone could have found me - I was invisible even just a few metres away. I went back out on the mountain and met my friends for lunch. I bought each of us a whistle. I think that would have saved my life - someone may have heard me. I was lucky. I didn't tell my wife for 6 months. I still ride off-piste. I try to stay out of tree-wells.
G Star you’re clearly not the sharpest off piste, you should NEVER ever ski off piste alone or without Avalanche gear. It’s a fucking death wish without a buddy and both of you should have a pieps, Shovel and probe
A Freakin Nightmare 😥😱
cool story bro
Whislter and the BC is notorious for big snow pact and avalanche, always go with friends in that place.
I remember living in Tahoe back in the late 90's and a snowboarder had gone missing at Heavenly. I think about a week later they finally found him. He had been tree skiing and fell into a tree sinkhole just like this scenario and died upside down by himself. He was just in his late teens early 20's.
This looks more like a tree well with no tree, than a crevasse.
Tree wells are scary
That's why you should always go off piste on an area than you already know.
@@Sombre____ that's not how this works
@@nokobz2624 It is how it's work. Ask any people who live in mountain. You will see.
I don't know if anyone will read this but: If this happens in Flaine, stay still, get help. Get a rope on you and only then think about unclipping.
Flaine is a limestone karst, some of the holes are very deep. There is a cave entrance shaft in the middle of one of the black runs which used to be the deepest known shaft in France. (Though it is strangely hard to Google). I think it is over 100m deep. That one is on-piste and covered by wire rope netting.
I am a caver and a skier, and once had a very bad ski holiday in Flaine one Christmas with no snow. As a caver it was fascinating.
Having seen what I saw then, I wouldn't go off piste in Flaine without a guide.
But, with a guide, some of the best off-piste I have ever had was in Flaine.
Good info !
That hole area was easy to see, actually.
Bla Blum I nearly did the same thing in the same place last year and it just came out of nowhere for me at least
While watching the vid, I was like "turn left NOW". I once saw a hole like that, and developed some awareness. Thanks for your comment.
It´s hard to see when you are riding and not focusing on "Holes in the snow" and he is talking to his son so he is´nt as observant... I guess ;). sorry for bad english
Yeah when your snowboarding you usually wouldn't be looking for random holes and it would be hard to see especially if you aren't looking for it.
Meltshotmasta420 well you should be watching where you are going!!!
Reminds me of that one Star Wars scene
Ryan Hinton lmao
Ryan Hinton ohhh yhhhh lmfao 😂
@Sweet Tea the one where luke is hanging upside down in a cave on hoth.... remember?
use the force 😂
Yeah why didnt he just ignite his lightsaber to get out smh
Thank god you survived. Well done Jack. You’re a lifesaver. 🙏
So glad you weren't hurt and help was there for you. ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you for sharing your experience and opening our eyes! Always good to get reminded of what could happen when having so much fun in the backcountry
i was riding with friends in the backcountry and we rode over this creek and both of my friends made it over it just fine and when i went a few inches away from where they went i fell about 12+ feet deep into this creek. about knee deep in water and 10 feet of snow luckily they saw me and helped me and dug me out. -14 Fahrenheit that day so my board was frozen instantly with a sheet of ice so i worked for about an hour to chip away that ice before we could get back. completely worth it for the ride though. conditions were incredible.
Sebastian Glenn feet werent even cold?
They probably were
Yitzhak Hirschfeld why would you come here just to be a jackass to everyone else?
*almost dies*
Dude those conditions are incredible!! Let's go again!!
That's never completely worth it
This video freaked me out so hard like I had trouble breathing just watching it.
That was insanely scaring my dude so glad you are safe
3:57 What are you doing?
You: You know, just hanging around
Dude i know how scary that is i almost died twice boarding. The 1st time i fell head first on a powder day on a tree hole and almost berried myself in, lucky I keep my cool and was able to winch myself out. the 2nd time a river was covered by ice and snow and as i rode over it it caved in and i almost went in with it and I would have been dragged under the ice and drowned.
Still there?
SpringRoll Wang No
Same thing happened to me with the river
Booshway115 I died getting dragged on a river I made this comment 6 hours before my boarding trip so if you see no more of my comments I probably did die
Macle Gaming You there still?
He was so lucky for so incredibly many reasons! And I was lucky to not know about the depth of the whole sooner than necessary!
A minute and 30 seconds in: I see this so he survived
I would like to say that youre a really cool man, I have been in the same situation before, except i was gotten out in just a couple of minutes. I know how hard it is to stay cool in a situation like that. cheers mate
So bad he didnt have his light saber as luke
i watched a video about lights sabers just 2 min ago
åhfan this comment wins! 🏆
Holy moly, the claustrophobia! Fair play for staying so calm and not wearing yourself out in a panic.
When you’re literally being held on by plastic straps with plastic ratchets
Bindings are way stronger than they look I would trust my life in mine
Yeah man, They are quite strong.
I watched it again and check out 4:00. It looks like someone put some kind of metal rebar over the hole so when the snow covers more of it making it impossible to see, no one would fall in and die.
@@MRMIKE276 I think those were just to mark it so skiers would avoid it earlier in the season when there was way less snow, but it just got covered up again, but I could be wrong
@@MRMIKE276 wait no he's standing on it you're right
I was literally keeping calm watching this.
Well done😂
glad you’re okay bro
As cool and safe as some places may be you should certainly never rude alone. I learnt this the hard way on a trip to Italy.
wow..... I chill my spine.....
Die hard snowboarder and this makes me never want to snowboard again
Is it me or could the person at the top take any longer to undo the person stuck in the crevasses bindings
The Sports Garage The person undoing the bindings is 11 years old..
Jamie Heywood oh sorry man, didn't realise that!!!
The Sports Garage lol yeah. But why did the guy wait so long to undo them himself? Did he have to dig snow under or
JArvus ff yeah I don’t know man, maybe his arms were jammed tightly or something???
With some bindings its also near impossible to open te bindings when there is force hanging on the straps. Thats to prevent the slider to come undone in a crash und twist your knee/ankle/hips
Jack was a bloody hero. You raised a very confident, intelligent and calm Fella there, and he has self determination in spades.
Thanks for the advice
Millions to one! Well done your 11yr old!!!!!
WOW, what an eye opener. thanks for posting. Always ride with a Wingman is the moral of this story.
Thank God you're alive
All in all, great day ha! Glad you got out without injury!
Oh... I was like... " I recognise that place"
Yep. Flaine.
Very dangerous to go off-piste because the "Lapiaz" have huge holes (and stone sharp enough to cut) dug by erosion.
Dangerous even if you are using skis
Why yt raccomended this to me? Tomorrow I'm going snowboarding
Filippo Rolandi Have fun today, I’m going sunday!
This is wild! Glad you were safe.
That same situation occured to me, thanks god I was with my friends.
“Why you need quick release bindings”
Seems it would have been a better idea to leap the caving snow instead of slow down and ease right into the hole.
Lucky man just started snowboarding myself off piste best feeling in the world be careful out there
I hope your ok that is so scary thank god that people were there and his board
y'all who are saying that the hole was fully noticeable, haven't been in a similar situation
Or they have so they learned what to watch out for. 🤷♂️
Funny how this guy in the video actually saw the hole and made the Choice to break and fall right in.
I would literally have a panic attack and faint if I was stuck in that position in that tiny space
Scary, glad you were on
Okay this clip gave me extreme anxiety, I felt every part of that.
Gotta love how you can see the hole from 10m away and that the whole valley is full of huge crevasses, yet the guy goes straight into the hole
You’re watching a video and expecting to see a hole. I’m sure it was the last thing on his mind.
But YOU definitely would’ve seen the hole and avoided it right?
Be careful if you go off piste in flaine, the whole area is known to be dangerous for falling down, even what looks covered in snow. Make sure to have a guide or go where others have gone before
I got so anxious just waiting for it to happen...
Tbh riding on fresh snow on a snowboard is just the best feeling ever
Anyone else thinking of that one scene from star wars when luke is hung in that cave
IMAGINE man if you would be in this situation...
I have been a snowboarder for about 17 years now. Been going powpow for the last 7y and love it, but everytime I have been off piste I allways go with a mountainguide. And in Flaine the mountain have huge holes in it coz of the chalk based rockfoundation. Some holes are up to 100m deep
This video made me so claustrophobic
Me happened the same when I was younger...
Ive fallen into one of these. i thought i was going to die... as i dug out, i seemed to just fall into more and more snow, sinking back down to ground level.. it took me nearly 3 hrs at -10c and was the scariest moment of my life
this guys lucky he stuck to his board
the amount of anxiety this gives me is insane
Glad your safe man that’s scary
Why was that hole there?
Gnomes dig them. It's a problem.
Well I suppose when a hole's a mountain hole. One piece of snow looks pretty much as good as the next as long as it is generally away from people.
Off Piste means away from the prepared trail. Away from the tourist paths, nursery slopes and fixed ropes, warning signs and security patrols. It is comparable to 'The Danger Zone', The Wilds. It is not 'Off Limits' but it is off the 'beaten track'. Any stream, ravine, creek, brook or fast moving spring snow melt can carve out a hole. Change course then carve anew. Then winter snow drifts can bury creeks, ravines streams, holes, bolders, tree stumps, etc under a meter or two of the white fluffy stuff and not tell you or the off piste adventurer. Snow slabs can break off and move a meter leaving cracks (Crevasses in glacial terrain).
So off piste is not for beginner generally. As there are many potential dangers which are left unmarked. Or the only markings are the map saying mountain terrain.
Some experienced off piste skiers (treckers, snowborders, etc) carry safty equipment respecting the fact they are 'Off Piste'. Equipment such as location finders (bleepers which bleep under an avalanche).
Sking over a ridge in to another off-piste valley can be in to a valley not patroled and leading maybe a hundred miles in to uninhabited terrain.
How deep was ot
Some Analysis:
At 1.11 the Video shows the snowborder driving-up a cloud of snow which looks like a sudden attempt to emergency brake. Had he not braked he could maybe have jumpped the hole. But his speed reduction resulted in him sking at such reduced speed so that going down the hole was the only remaining option. Glad he was okay. His shadow at 1:10 shows him standing up straight. Seemingly relaxed. Yet Shouldn't he be approaching steeper, lumpier (or mogul) terrain with knees bent? Shock absorbtion springy legs. Ready to rise and fall, dodge, twist, swivel or spring as the demands of the terrain are met. I ski with two planks. So I am not sure of snowbordering but I think some is the same. At 0:56 did he hit a sub-snow surface rock?
But over-all it looked like a great day.
Photosynthesis
I got stuck in a tree well when I went off trail once and I saw people ski past me and I told them to help me they said dig your self out or call patrol no service and I had a guy help me thank him
So glad you're okay. That looked scary.
Just got this reccomended while im in flaine will watch out for it
Flaine is notorious for crevasses, though... Why risk it? 😯
Glad you're safe 👍
Just like the title says I would be pissed off too if this happened to me
My heart beat Crazy now omg, ım soo good about nothing happend to you, only sycologc. ❤️ I love you man
Well done to the lads and lasses
You could see that there was a hole, the snow looked different
Not when your going like 20 miles per hour
@@hunterjohnson6113 He saw it and tried to stop.... if he hadn't he probably would've gone over it...
That person just sitting there, with their back turned as the guy tried to pull himself out annoyed me
imagine falling down, not able to climb up, in the darkness, nobody is there, nobody can hear you, silence. Must be terrific
Had that happen in a tree well, took me an utterly exhausting hour to get back to the run.
Wooow really youtube i recommended this video once a week then i broke my leg on the snowboard 😭😭😭
Solution if you are alone: take one binding off grab your board take second binding off and hold your snowboard , then crawl out If the hole is deep while holding the board
I had something really similar happen to me a few weeks ago but luckily I feel feet first. Super scary when you don’t expect it
Jack you are my hero!!!
You were god-awful close to dying. If your board wasn’t there, no doubt you would have fallen into that hole props to you man.
I actually have a similar story, not too long ago my friend and I were riding over a snow bridge a few feet wide when my friend accidentally fell off. It wasn’t that high up, but the snow was pure powder and he fell into it, getting trapped. Luckily I was there, I got his snowboard and helped pull him out. It just shows how you should always go up with someone and only go off the trails if you know you can.
And i thought : omg i would love to do that! Looks so fun
That I so mind blowing so glad nothing went wrong 😅
Good Video