snowboard triggers avalanche

Ever wondered what it takes to move a mountain? - a snowboard's edge does the job here.
This video was taken in the 'Hohe Tauern', Austria. A group of 8 hiked up the 'Sonnblick' mountain with skies and snowboards to enjoy some knee-deep powder. While the weather was nasty in the morning (hardly vision, yet windy), it cleared up by the time we reached the top - perfect! You can guess how awestruck we were, when the snow decided to come down with us. Before losing power at the end of the slope it hit two guys on escape - luckily, no damage done ...

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• avalanche
• snowboard
• mountain
• alps
• snow
• trigger
• backcountry-skiing
• ski-touring

[Pokedude123789]

0:17 bottom left :D

[bmxje]

Nice video!

Just one thing.. Why the hell would you ride there? You can see that the wind is blowing in over that hang, so u know that its loaded. Whats the first thing to learn when riding offpiste? Don't, or be very carfiull riding "Loaded" slopes. And becouse those people where standing there, i recon ur not really carefull. But still, nice vid!

[alpanian]

It may not look like much when it just passes by everyone like this. But imagine coming here on your own, actually getting caught in the slide, and ending up under 1+ meter of snow. That's the end of your life....

[Zen0xious]

An American calling someone an idiot, more than a little ironic. Keep being an arse you just reaffirm everyones views of Americans being uncultured rude arsewipes.

[ChiefBossHogg]

You're an idiot. That is a slab avy.

[Zen0xious]

That's a sluff not an avalanche.

[Wormeatingdragon]

LOL the guy in the foreground is like "Shit ~ Shit!"

[J0Hot]

haha die tusse hauts fast aus den skiern!!!!!

[cocosbash]

und was soll man jez aus dem video entnehmn?

[XirOa]

noobs