Skier Triggers Giant Avalanche

Sage Cattabriga-Alosa almost gets swept away by a giant avalanche in Alaska.

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After that, he said "oops, sorry guys!" to his friends down the mountain.

[kai-wmor]

YouTube is trying their best to get me to quit skiing

[puujdo]

This guy celebrates two birthdays.

[DirtyRC]

I would buy a lottery ticket after this ordeal..

[redshield]

In Switzerland we sometime trigger them with small explosives. It’s best to Traeger a small avalanche before it grows into a monster.

[gregkosinski]

Very scary situation. The structure below that snow was well hidden.

[SnoopyenWoodstock]

I gues he'd spend the rest of the day washing his underpant's

[RJBeee]

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.

[spikeslush]

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!!

[markdirigible]

this is the best example ever of why you should do avi control in the back country before you drop in

[rmatson]

Helps one appreciate and respect the mountains. Thanks for posting this.

[snickle]

The good old days of youtube disaster videos with insanely loud dramatic music.

[akolakol]

The skier probably assumed the avalanches gender

[kinkarnge]

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. 

[PappyP]

Can guarantee his life flashed before his eyes when he slipped there for a second

[taiwantempest]

You can feel the "Oh shit I'm still in it" @0:14

[cademihalek]

0:03 It was at this moment, he knew, he fucked up.

[BlacKSuNCanada]

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.

[ralphaverill]

Just as likely the sonic vibrations from the close-in helicopter rotors triggered the slippage. Probably the combination of skier and helicopter.

[vonarg]

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.