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the shizzle => shootin' the shit => Topic started by: TobyD on July 12, 2022, 08:19:25 am

Title: Avalanche
Post by: TobyD on July 12, 2022, 08:19:25 am

https://news.sky.com/story/briton-survives-apocalyptic-avalanche-on-kyrgyzstan-trek-after-piece-of-glacier-breaks-off-12649817

Terrifying.

Title: Re: Avalanche
Post by: User deactivated. on July 12, 2022, 09:28:39 am

Love that he was basically 'ride or die' on filming it for Instagram!

Title: Re: Avalanche
Post by: andy popp on July 12, 2022, 12:26:46 pm

I think he realized it was catching him whatever and that he was already stood next to something he could shelter under/behind.

It is undoubtedly terrifying however.

Edit: hadn't watched this narrated version before posting. But he was still never going to evade it.

Title: Re: Avalanche
Post by: crzylgs on July 13, 2022, 10:51:25 am

'I hate when avalanche videos end to soon'

So do people who die in avalanches!

Crazy footage, very lucky chap by the look of it he didn't have a lot of cover and could have been buried or incapacitated.