This article includes a video of the actual rescue. It's pretty scary to watch. I have been rescued by my daughter upside down in deep snow upside down too when she was young somewhere between 7 and 10 years old. I was teaching her to ski and then she fell down in front of me which made me avoid her and go off a jump that turned me upside down into the snow head first. I had to have her help untangling me from poles and skis to survive. Without my daughter's help in my rescue I wouldn't have survived very long that day because I couldn't breathe well because of snow in my mouth and eyes.
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https://www.popularmechanics.com/adventure/outdoors/a24562/tree-well-rescue/
Watch a Nail-Biting Rescue of a Skier Trapped in a "Tree Well"
The softer snow around trees causes 60% of deaths from snow immersion.
Tree wells, areas of deep, soft snow around trees, are caused by the branches of trees filtering snow like a sifter does flour. The end result is like a patch of quicksand, but with snow. These patches of softer snow can easily trap skiers or hikers who stumble upon them unexpectedly. This danger becomes dramatically apparent in a video of a group of friends skiing on a backcountry slope.
The crew was practicing its avalanche rescue techniques when they were confronted with a real rescue scenario—a friend had fallen face-first into a deep tree well. Only his skis and feet were visible above the snow. The terrifying and thrilling rescue will make you think twice about exploring wild snowy terrains without professional training.
Source: LEADUSALLC via Boing Boing
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