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This is what danger looks like: A snowboarder documented himself caught in a deadly avalanche - Walla! news

2021-01-23T21:55:29.216Z


A snowboarder has documented himself being swept away in an avalanche in particularly stressful moments, in which he prays that he came out of it alive. Fortunately he survived to tell and persuade others not to make the mistake he made: "I am grateful I survived." View the hard documentation


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This is what danger looks like: a snowboarder documented himself caught in a deadly avalanche

A snowboarder has documented himself being swept away in an avalanche in particularly stressful moments, in which he prays that he came out of it alive.

Fortunately he survived to tell and persuade others not to make the mistake he made: "I am grateful I survived."

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Documentation of an avalanche surfer (Maurice Kervin (@shreadsauce))

Less than a minute after snowboarder Maurice Carwin set off on the slopes of a snowy and remote mountain in Colorado, he stumbled upon a dreadful avalanche that threatened to bury him beneath it.

The near-disaster occurred around 1 p.m. on Jan. 8 in Blanc Pass in Summit County, when Carvin felt the cracked snow, looked back and saw the piles of snow coming toward him.

He told CNN: "I was shocked at how big it was. I'm very grateful to be alive, honestly, that I was not buried under the snow or fatally injured. The intensity of it was certainly strong enough to bury me under, injure or maybe even kill. "It was very intense."

Not only did 25-year-old Carvin from Denver survive, he also managed to get out of it without any injury.

He documented the adrenaline-pumping experience he went through on camera.



Carwin said he realized something was wrong when he saw "cracks" beneath him.

She recounted: "The snow broke into lumps, in fact, and it looked like cobwebs appearing in front of you in the snow as it fell apart."

When the snow began to drag him, Carwin said, he used his backpack, equipped with an airbag, to stay on top of the snow.

The snow hit him and swept him to a distance of about 300 meters.

"I dropped my handlebars and the camera that was in the back hand and pulled my airbag, which helped me float over the snow," Carvin said, "I was able to put my feet over the snow and float on it until I reached the stopping point. When I stopped everything was still moving around me. It was a moment. "Very surreal."



"I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm sure," he repeated as soon as he was arrested, as can be heard in the video.

Carvin, a snowboard enthusiast, said he knew the skiing conditions were dangerous, but said he had spent time checking the snow conditions and felt it was safe.

He added: "As anyone who has ever been in an avalanche says, I was sure there was no danger so I went for it. I was clearly wrong."

Carvin called the rescue services and realized that a question was already on his way to him.

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"A little impossible to dig yourself out"

Avalanches are unpredictable and dangerous and not every story has a happy ending as in Carvin's case.

Over the past ten winters, an average of 27 people have died in avalanches each season in the United States, according to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC).

In the U.S., 23 people were killed as a result of an avalanche last year.



Two people were hit by avalanches on the same day that Carvin slipped, and both were caused by humans, CAIC Director Ethan Green told CNN. "About 90 percent of these accidents Ending in death.

Most often it is the humans who create the avalanche, meaning it is not a natural avalanche.

So far this year in Colorado there has been a higher than average number of avalanches. "

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As of Saturday night, CAIC recorded 259 avalanches in Colorado this year.

Green added: "In Colorado there are about 4,000 avalanches a year. Reaching nearly 300 in a two-week period is a lot but not unusual."

Green said an avalanche is easy to operate, but areas that could be dangerous can be avoided.

"It just needs some training and planning," he said, "after the snow slides, it becomes very hard, almost like concrete. It's almost impossible to dig yourself out. The snow is so hard you have to get help from someone. I recommend getting equipment. The right safety. "



Three skiers lost their lives from avalanches over the weekend before Christmas during a "particularly dangerous" period in the popular area of ​​Colorado, officials said.

Carvin, who surfs from the age of 4 or 5, offers to surf accompanied by a friend or a group of people.

He hopes that people will learn from his case, equip themselves accordingly and thoroughly check the surfing conditions before they set off.

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