Screenshot of a crack at least 15 meters deep. comrades joined him and tied him with a rope. He chose to remain anonymous for fear of disturbing his family.
“In the euphoria of the descent, my friend fell into a crevasse at the last moment.
“He tried to avoid it. Unfortunately, he fell right into it and started rolling down,” Arnold said.
After a few seconds of sliding, the skier mutters a French curse before exhaling and removing his pack to grab his climbing gear.
Mr. Arnold said most of the group was «far away on the lift» and had to wait to get high enough to rescue their fallen friend.
«We were all harnesses, ice screws and ice axes are equipped, but our friend was able to start going out alone, waiting for us to join him to tie him up with a rope,” he said.
The skier was shocked after the incident on the La Grave glacier from which the team has already skied many times.
“After that, we even made a few descents,” said Mr. Arnaud.
Les Powtos combine their love of skiing with photos and videos, but waited a year before releasing footage of the incident on April 26 last year online.
“We were hesitant to release this video, but taking a step back, we thought it was good, because a warning to others,” Mr. Arnold said.
“We let the year go by and then finally decided to share it. The video was not made to cause a buzz, but to show how you can fool yourself on the descent, being euphoric in the powder, even if you know the La Grave Glacier.
The video has been published. shared thousands of times.
Mr Arnold said: “We knew the video would be successful, but not to that extent. It is completely inaccessible to us.”
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