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Well, that was quite intense 😳


 
Posted : 10/07/2022 7:27 pm
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That's a calm individual!


 
Posted : 10/07/2022 7:40 pm
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Given how much he zoomed in at the beginning, I can imagine thinking "that's OK, it's miles away". Then, as it approaches, realising the speed it is going. Lucky those rocks were nearby.


 
Posted : 10/07/2022 7:42 pm
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I thought it was slow motion at first


 
Posted : 10/07/2022 7:52 pm
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That’s a calm individual!

That's one way of putting it.


 
Posted : 10/07/2022 7:58 pm
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A bit more of the story! Wow!


 
Posted : 10/07/2022 8:31 pm
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Woah, that’s scary! The power is awesome and frightening!


 
Posted : 10/07/2022 8:36 pm
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Blimey


 
Posted : 10/07/2022 8:58 pm
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Strewth, crikey, and wow…that was nuts. It was miles away!


 
Posted : 10/07/2022 9:03 pm
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I saw that video when it popped up on Flipboard, and I had much the same reaction! Trouble is, an avalanche like that is traveling a lot faster than it appears, a bit like a pyroclastic flow from a volcano, something like 150-200mph?
It’s the fact that there’s a significant dip that’s deceiving, it sort of disappears, lulling you into a false sense of security, then it comes hammering up over the near ridge, in an ‘Oh, shit!’ moment.
He was bloody lucky he had the rocks there.


 
Posted : 16/07/2022 7:08 pm
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That’s a calm individual!

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs…..maybe you don’t understand the situation 😀


 
Posted : 16/07/2022 11:04 pm
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Perhaps he was sick of the incessant snow updates?


 
Posted : 16/07/2022 11:56 pm
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Outstanding footage. Reckon that’ll turn up in natural science lectures for years to come.

Rest of his instagram feed makes me feel quite ill.


 
Posted : 17/07/2022 7:39 am
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Perhaps he was sick of the incessant snow updates?

Beaten to it....


 
Posted : 17/07/2022 8:16 am
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I’d have been moving a good few seconds before he did. Maybe not make much real difference but looked daft to me he was still filming when obvious the snow was a few seconds from hitting him.


 
Posted : 17/07/2022 8:34 am
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Outstanding footage.

Well, filmed in portrait, but y'know... 😉


 
Posted : 17/07/2022 9:29 am

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