That’s done everywhere; either with explosives dropped from helicopters or with a howitzer. Outside Anchorage, there are howitzer emplacements that are used for avalanche control.
hes cutting the snow here. He was meant to trigger the avalanche but i dont think he expected it to start up above him aswell or for it to be that big. But you dont ride sideways along a mountain you ride down so he was cutting the snow.
SmokeWeedEveryDay629 your clearly lacking knowledge in avalanche safety and techniques to trigger avalanches. I recommend you stay clear of the back country.
+Secundus hello, so yeah kinda but people who know about snow and avalanches know more or less where its going to snap and drop from and there is a technique used in the business called cutting snow which is where you cut into the snow(fancy that) and relive it of its tension thus setting off the avalanche.
You've watched too much simpsons. Helicopters trigger avalanches only when there's a person dropping explosives or the helicopter has some sort of blasting device.
That’s why they teach you how to to identify cornice in snowmobile safety class. Pretty sure that’s the cause of most avalanches caused by humans. Really light snow that hangs on a ridge, usually after a snowstorm with high winds. A snow drift on a mountain.
He's ski cutting on the convex which is a common technique to check the stability of a feature or aspect before you ski it. Obviously this one took him by surprise but SCA is anything but deserving of a Darwin award. Even the best trained will find themselves in situations like this when they're pushing themselves to the max.
Impressive , interesting that there were 2camera angles on that one . And a Heli floating about Maybe an inspection on a film shoot that nearly went very wrong who knows ...only speculation.
Looked deeper than a couple feet, but its hard to judge scale with the skier out of the shot. My point was that by in large most people don't dig pits past 2m because you generally don't interact with the snow much deeper than that with the weight of an average skier. If it triggered on surface hoar or what ever below 2m it is likely that no one would see it. Dropping a cornice would be good except that he was halfway down before he hit the cornice. Too easy to armchair quarterback safety.
imagine accidentally triggering an avalanche, surviving it and then being told several people died in that avalanche...I woulda felt like a murderer and been depressed for a very long time...I wouldn't be able to live with myself like that so I'm praying for the people who have to...
Insane ❄This morning I was having a lucid dream that huge Avalanche was coming towards me and a bunch of other people I knew it was death there was just no way to survive this it was huge and it was coming fast I turned around and start running I remember thinking maybe if I got underneath this awning that was in my dream from this little building that it could save me but then I thought now nothing could save us from all this snow it was terrifying I woke up and when I looked at the clock it was 11:11 the angel minute and it was at the exact time I was supposed to die in my dream🎉 happy 2024 to me and happy 2024 to you
This validates my thinking and rule. Skiers need to stay OUT of the powder. I have a responsibility to every skiers yard sale in the powder. Run by fast and spray them hard.
After that, he said "oops, sorry guys!" to his friends down the mountain.
😂
he said, "revenge is a dish best served.... _cold"_
* as he skied over them
TH-cam is trying their best to get me to quit skiing
Dude Ik I keep seeing avanlanche videos
TH-cam is trying to get me quit literally everything I search on 😂
They're doing a great job of keeping me from ever skiing.
@@Zargabaath stay on piste and don't go for crazy shit and you'll be fine. That is, as long as the chair lift doesn't go berserk.
It’ll never succeed!!
This guy celebrates two birthdays.
More like Sharting Day.
I would buy a lottery ticket after this ordeal..
+ace b no need, already won one life.
Matt Smith unless you win 😉
I’d thank God.
In Switzerland we sometime trigger them with small explosives. It’s best to Traeger a small avalanche before it grows into a monster.
That’s done everywhere; either with explosives dropped from helicopters or with a howitzer. Outside Anchorage, there are howitzer emplacements that are used for avalanche control.
This is backcountry so no avalanche mitigation herr
That's literally standard practice at every big mountain ski resort.
I gues he'd spend the rest of the day washing his underpant's
Very scary situation. The structure below that snow was well hidden.
heli was up there tho
At around the 0:07 mark you can see him digging his poles in furiously trying to get away.
Talk about a "come to Jesus" moment. Back country is nuts.
Jesus isn't real bud.
+IDontBelieveInPenises Triggered
+Rj Bertram Very true.
Jesus is real, Hallelujah! Praise God!
No Jesus is not real, even if he was real he's been dead for 2000 years, nice try though.
"MY bad!" lol
Yea good move cutting out! i got burried for 1.5 min this season, you'll never look at the mtns the same. glad all is good!!
Helps one appreciate and respect the mountains. Thanks for posting this.
I wonder how deep that edge measures.
this is the best example ever of why you should do avi control in the back country before you drop in
It’s called ski cutting. That’s what he was doing.
What is Avi control?
@@sparrow4313 avalanche control
The good old days of youtube disaster videos with insanely loud dramatic music.
The skier probably assumed the avalanches gender
lol. dumb feminist avalanche. it got *ahem* triggered
ok breeder
Never gets old
Can guarantee his life flashed before his eyes when he slipped there for a second
8 years later and this was recommended, still amazing to see!
12 years after it was made, and it was recommended again!
hes cutting the snow here. He was meant to trigger the avalanche but i dont think he expected it to start up above him aswell or for it to be that big. But you dont ride sideways along a mountain you ride down so he was cutting the snow.
He was meant to trigger it lol. No.
SmokeWeedEveryDay629 your clearly lacking knowledge in avalanche safety and techniques to trigger avalanches. I recommend you stay clear of the back country.
+Duncan Mackenzie So you mean they send guys out on skis to risk their lives to trigger avalanches?
+Secundus hello, so yeah kinda but people who know about snow and avalanches know more or less where its going to snap and drop from and there is a technique used in the business called cutting snow which is where you cut into the snow(fancy that) and relive it of its tension thus setting off the avalanche.
Duncan Alexander Maybe weathering and erosion is good
wow! that one looks fantastic! like a giant waterfall
it pretty much is, until it stops...then, it becomes concrete
Bro took "its okay to go there"
To a whole new level
Just as likely the sonic vibrations from the close-in helicopter rotors triggered the slippage. Probably the combination of skier and helicopter.
You've watched too much simpsons. Helicopters trigger avalanches only when there's a person dropping explosives or the helicopter has some sort of blasting device.
@@ajsmythe Ha! I watched one Simpsons episode for less than 5 minutes and turned it off before I vomited. I stand by my post.
Fortuna smiled down on that skier.
That’s why they teach you how to to identify cornice in snowmobile safety class. Pretty sure that’s the cause of most avalanches caused by humans.
Really light snow that hangs on a ridge, usually after a snowstorm with high winds. A snow drift on a mountain.
Looks like he was cutting the slope, but got a bit of surprise when the secondary fracture came above him.
thanks a lot Mark.
looked like the snow slipped on a surface nearly 3 m down. When was that last time you dug a 3 m profile on the top of a mountain?
You can feel the "Oh shit I'm still in it" @0:14
That guy missed his chance to get a darwin award...
lol
Rhe avalanche wasn't because of his own stupidity. It isn't deserving of a Darwin Award.
For doing something that he loves and makes you truly feel alive?
He's ski cutting on the convex which is a common technique to check the stability of a feature or aspect before you ski it. Obviously this one took him by surprise but SCA is anything but deserving of a Darwin award. Even the best trained will find themselves in situations like this when they're pushing themselves to the max.
Impressive , interesting that there were 2camera angles on that one . And a Heli floating about Maybe an inspection on a film shoot that nearly went very wrong who knows ...only speculation.
Just doing my AST 1 course while watching. Is that what they call a Slab avalanche? Because of the crown shape?
0:03 It was at this moment, he knew, he fucked up.
FaZe Sanic But then he realized he doesn't and thought "fuck it, I'm alive!"
felpel102 But then he sees his friends down the mountain and starts singing "Push me to the edge, All my friends are dead"
It looks like a waterfall
Oh my god the ENTIRE cornice collapses! One foot to his left and he would've been swept away. That was a giant avalanche.
Looked deeper than a couple feet, but its hard to judge scale with the skier out of the shot. My point was that by in large most people don't dig pits past 2m because you generally don't interact with the snow much deeper than that with the weight of an average skier. If it triggered on surface hoar or what ever below 2m it is likely that no one would see it. Dropping a cornice would be good except that he was halfway down before he hit the cornice. Too easy to armchair quarterback safety.
Sage Cattabriga-Alosa is Avalancheman then.
0:15 Note how he is taking a look at his work, then go away, because he have other avalanches to trigger.
I just witnessed a mountain turn in to my teacher:
Bald.
"There's that I guess🤷🏻♂️"
„And thats how i buried a whole village with snow, kids“
Teton Gravity Research - "Yep, it's still going DOWN"
These videos make it easier to stomach the fact I can't afford a back country set up
thanks for epic music
Skier needs to raise their awareness!
He must've felt proud
This guy narrowly escaping death.
*me sipping coffee *
That would be great for an action scene running from the avalanche and explosions
Imagine just doing a little twist and causing a huge avalanche
This is AWEsome!
The avalanche would like to speak to the manager of this mountain.
Lucky skier, don’t think he realizes that slide was going to be that big. He also has 1 ski caught on the avalanche
that gave me chills
He was veering to the right but then he said, il go left, Best decision ever
imagine accidentally triggering an avalanche, surviving it and then being told several people died in that avalanche...I woulda felt like a murderer and been depressed for a very long time...I wouldn't be able to live with myself like that so I'm praying for the people who have to...
If this was back country, that’s just the risk you take. If it was inbounds it should have been shot down first.
And why was a helicopter taking video of him up there?
I would take the Bart Simpson defense, "I didn't do it, it wasn't me, I wasn't anywhere near it, you can't prove a thing".
Skiers: God, snowboarders are the worst
Also Skiers: *triggers giant avalanche*
Looks like the ice shelf that tore off of Antarctica.
Nature at it's finest
The music sounds like a 2000s super hero movie
"uhhh, woops."
is it just me or is that kinda
oddly satisfying
He's like: "Oh snap!*littlejump*"
crazy pictures, I would have definitly shit my pants there...
Looks purposeful.
skier- " you guys come pick me up right now ! the shit in my pants is getting cold".
Didn’t know snow was so emotional.
This dude got some plot armor
"You were the Chosen One! It was said that you would destroy the Sith, not join them. bring balance to the force, not leave it in darkness".
Damn Sage, that shits gnarly as hell
The satisfaction
Guys if you invert the colors. It looks like a bunch of concert falling down a chasm during an earthquake
I wish I could ski on fresh snow
he barely missed it :o
"oh...sorry!...sorry."
Insane ❄This morning I was having a lucid dream that huge Avalanche was coming towards me and a bunch of other people I knew it was death there was just no way to survive this it was huge and it was coming fast I turned around and start running I remember thinking maybe if I got underneath this awning that was in my dream from this little building that it could save me but then I thought now nothing could save us from all this snow it was terrifying I woke up and when I looked at the clock it was 11:11 the angel minute and it was at the exact time I was supposed to die in my dream🎉 happy 2024 to me and happy 2024 to you
This validates my thinking and rule. Skiers need to stay OUT of the powder. I have a responsibility to every skiers yard sale in the powder. Run by fast and spray them hard.
lmao wtf does this have to do with powder.
Epic Meal Time music
"Oops"
Did you know what "teton" actually means in french? :D
so like most of this mountain is just snow??
this is like a scene from ice age
He was THAT CLOSE to death
buddy almost died and didnt even realize
damn skiers
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all in the name of gravity
The helicopter’s beating blades caused the avalanche.
This is why we dig snow pits and drop cornices. Snow that unstable is easily detectable just by digging a lit
Scrat would be proud
That was insane
thats one lucky guy.
Как он сам с ней не укатился😱
That is one lucky SOB.
undeniable proof that skiers are evil snowbenders
I could survive that.
*Puts down pop tart.*
dat crown doe
bro triggered the snowmans curse
Thats a lotta damage!
That was so close. SO close.
"yikes"
With slab like that, why were you there???
No I wasnt. You can see the depth of the elab on the video.
did u react to ur own comment? :/
Pega Sister lol
Pega Sister He probably replied to a comment that got deleted
Are you sure the helicopter didn’t trigger the avalanche?