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.
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...
Is that supposed to be an insult? Someone found them attractive and they… Had a child? Like all successful animals..? You accuse them of being superior, and for that you are correct. Seethe.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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Skiier gets to the bottom. *heavy breathing* "Wow! Best run of my life! That carving towards the end was just.. mwah~ My sponsors are gonna be so stoked. Let's see the footage." Camera guy: 😐
3 meters? more like a couple of feet. In any case its not the depth of the snow pit that's giving the information .. you dig it in a place where the overall depth is not so big. Its the layers, snow structure, and the bonding your interested in.
No other skiers, filmed and timed...you can see his concentration, keeping the ridge line, going methodically....absolutely NO concern...because it's a scheduled snow release to keep catastrophic avalanches from happening. No 'sweeping away' of anything but snow. The skier is doing the job he was assigned...clear the potential avalanche slip zone.
By epic death do you mean being buried alive under 20+ feet of snow screaming for help but nobody can hear you and you die because of lack of oxygen? Yup seems pretty epic to me!
Someone got lucky ... it's clear that this is a ski-cut of sorts. But if the shear had occurred just a few feet higher, the skier would have been swept off his feet and down the mountain.
I've been thinking of skiing so bad and visiting such places soon but after understanding avalanche. The least I'd do is just visit Svalbard and stick to riding!
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
UA-cam is trying their best to get me to quit skiing
Dude Ik I keep seeing avanlanche videos
UA-cam is trying to get me quit literally everything I search on 😂
@deepstateflatmoonlizardcultist 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!!
Me too
This guy celebrates two birthdays.
More like Sharting Day.
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 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.
He already played his odds once...
Can guarantee his life flashed before his eyes when he slipped there for a second
Helps one appreciate and respect the mountains. Thanks for posting this.
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.
Very scary situation. The structure below that snow was well hidden.
heli was up there tho
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!!
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
I gues he'd spend the rest of the day washing his underpant's
8 years later and this was recommended, still amazing to see!
12 years after it was made, and it was recommended again!
"MY bad!" lol
I wonder how deep that edge measures.
The “epic music” really hurts the video so much more than it helps it
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
The good old days of youtube disaster videos with insanely loud dramatic music.
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.
Looks like he was cutting the slope, but got a bit of surprise when the secondary fracture came above him.
Oh my god the ENTIRE cornice collapses! One foot to his left and he would've been swept away. That was a giant avalanche.
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.
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?
Bro took "its okay to go there"
To a whole new level
I just witnessed a mountain turn in to my teacher:
Bald.
You can feel the "Oh shit I'm still in it" @0:14
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?
„And thats how i buried a whole village with snow, kids“
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"
Fortuna smiled down on that skier.
The skier probably assumed the avalanches gender
lol. dumb feminist avalanche. it got *ahem* triggered
ok breeder
Is that supposed to be an insult? Someone found them attractive and they… Had a child? Like all successful animals..? You accuse them of being superior, and for that you are correct. Seethe.
(Also, did you just assume their breeding views? Bigot!1!1!1!2!2111!!!!)
@@7fallngl dude using the word “superior” in this context carries some pretty severe connotations, having kids doesn’t make you superior
Just doing my AST 1 course while watching. Is that what they call a Slab avalanche? Because of the crown shape?
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.
I love that this says the skier triggered the avalanche, but I think the reverberations from the chopper contributed to the event.
I think you probably don't know much about snowpack and avalanche triggers.
@@OccamsToaster Fair enough.
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.
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
Skiers: God, snowboarders are the worst
Also Skiers: *triggers giant avalanche*
wow! that one looks fantastic! like a giant waterfall
it pretty much is, until it stops...then, it becomes concrete
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.
Teton Gravity Research - "Yep, it's still going DOWN"
How tall is that crown?
This guy narrowly escaping death.
*me sipping coffee *
"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".
Skier needs to raise their awareness!
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.
The avalanche would like to speak to the manager of this mountain.
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".
Imagine just doing a little twist and causing a huge avalanche
These videos make it easier to stomach the fact I can't afford a back country set up
undeniable proof that skiers are evil snowbenders
The skier or helicopter flying overhead ??
Pretty sure the helicopter triggered this
This dude got some plot armor
Lucky skier, don’t think he realizes that slide was going to be that big. He also has 1 ski caught on the avalanche
so like most of this mountain is just snow??
skier- " you guys come pick me up right now ! the shit in my pants is getting cold".
He must've felt proud
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He was veering to the right but then he said, il go left, Best decision ever
American mountains seem very different... I'm curious... 😮
Step out of the shower, triggered.
Get in my car, triggered.
Vigorously ski, triggering.
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.
Never gets old
"There's that I guess🤷🏻♂️"
thanks a lot Mark.
It looks like a waterfall
Why was he allowed to ski in such unstable terrain?
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bro triggered the snowmans curse
Looks purposeful.
Skiier gets to the bottom. *heavy breathing*
"Wow! Best run of my life! That carving towards the end was just.. mwah~ My sponsors are gonna be so stoked. Let's see the footage."
Camera guy: 😐
Did you know what "teton" actually means in french? :D
3 meters? more like a couple of feet. In any case its not the depth of the snow pit that's giving the information .. you dig it in a place where the overall depth is not so big. Its the layers, snow structure, and the bonding your interested in.
Whoa :0 what is this song?
Just in case you don't believe in guardian angels.
is it just me or is that kinda
oddly satisfying
buddy almost died and didnt even realize
Why wasnt he arrested for cross cutting a ridge ?
Guys if you invert the colors. It looks like a bunch of concert falling down a chasm during an earthquake
Looks like the ice shelf that tore off of Antarctica.
So did the helicopter save him
lol it’s like the 2012 movie, where they are driving away and the ground is splitting in half under him
Is this Avalanche control? That looks intentional, especially since there is a helicopter filming it.
Are you sure the helicopter didn’t trigger the avalanche?
Snorts, "Did I do that?"
He was THAT CLOSE to death
No other skiers, filmed and timed...you can see his concentration, keeping the ridge line, going methodically....absolutely NO concern...because it's a scheduled snow release to keep catastrophic avalanches from happening. No 'sweeping away' of anything but snow. The skier is doing the job he was assigned...clear the potential avalanche slip zone.
That's the most clueless thing I've read in the month since you posted it.
thank You God for giving him another chance.
Mich Elle Lol! So was it this god that tried to kill him? 🙄
@@JS-qg1ie lol yeah god playing cat and mouse with his minions. Probably bored.
barebare 😂 or baby god playing with his dollies
The music sounds like a 2000s super hero movie
This is why we dig snow pits and drop cornices. Snow that unstable is easily detectable just by digging a lit
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is this a sport or searching a death?
Missed an epic death by a matter of seconds, if that.
By epic death do you mean being buried alive under 20+ feet of snow screaming for help but nobody can hear you and you die because of lack of oxygen? Yup seems pretty epic to me!
It's epic from the outside looking in ;)
Beats dying of boredom with the tv on.
I mean, if we can choose how we die...why not have an epic death
The helicopter’s beating blades caused the avalanche.
Not sure how much more obvious an avalanche slope must look like in order to be noticed ))
Someone got lucky ... it's clear that this is a ski-cut of sorts. But if the shear had occurred just a few feet higher, the skier would have been swept off his feet and down the mountain.
I've been thinking of skiing so bad and visiting such places soon but after understanding avalanche. The least I'd do is just visit Svalbard and stick to riding!
Almost being part of a past luckiest person
Inches from death. Off piste skiing on terrain like that is like playing Russian Roulette.
It was a combination of helicopter an skier that made that happen. The percussion from the blades can cause an avalanche.