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Ste Foy Tarentaise Avalanche Video

This video from an avalanche in France was taken a week ago.  It’s scary. It caught the 5th skier on the slope, typical of a persistent slab avalanche, and propagated large enough to take 4 people out who thought they we...
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CB Local Caught in Mt. Ruby Avalanche – CBAC Photos

Preliminary reports are not good regarding an avalanche that took place around 2:00 PM today, January 21st, 2016.  A snowmobiler was caught in a large slide in the Lake Irwin area under Mt. Ruby.  A local man, known as B-Rad,...
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East Vail Avalanche Rescue

A skier in what looks like a party of three triggered a slide and was partially buried in the East Vail Chutes.  The episode was recorded on a pov camera.  A lot of bad decisions are made in this video.  However, the way he ...
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Big Avalanche Footy from Nepal

Big mountains produce big avalanches.  Check out this one from Tilicho Lake in Nepal.  This one easily crosses the large lake and up the other side of the valley.
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Ski Patrol Heli View of Stevens Pass Controlled Slide

This video features a play by play of the Stevens Pass avalanche, given by the Ski Patrol members who flew over and dropped the charge that started the massive slide.  Ski Patrol rules!
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Report on Beehive Avy Fatality

A 28 year old Bozeman man died after a small avalanche carried him over a rock face on Beehive Peak in Montana.  The victim and party had taken all of the appropriate precautions, but it still ended in fatality.  According t...
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Large Avalanche Footage from NZ

Ryan Taylor, of New Zealand, was on the side of the mountain when he happened to notice some rockfall across the way.  That rockfall turned into a large avalanche and he happened to film it all. By the bottom you can truly se...
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FWT Snowbird Postponed

Yesterday, on what was supposed to be the morning of the Freeride World Tour stop at Snowbird, a large avalanche ripped out during patrol’s control work.  The slide, which had a 12 foot crown, has made the venue unrideab...
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Insanely Lucky Avalanche Video

It takes a great bit of humility to mess up and then post your mistakes online.  This Australian was lucky to live to tell the tale and post this video so we can get the in-your-face reminders of how they messed up. Fortunatel...
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Mt. Owen Avalanche POV

Our friend Chris Miller had a pretty scary moment about a month ago.  Dropping in off the top Mt. Owen, Chris triggered an avalanche.  We’ll just go ahead and say that Chris was super-lucky and we are super-happy he liv...
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