avalanche story

after finishing filming a coulouir descent in the pitztal region, i first almost got caught in a slide at the exit of the coulouir. luckily  i managed to stay on the side as the whole thing went down. 
quite relieved, we - much astenwald from innsbruck and me - started our traverse out the valley, when we suddenly heard a terrible noise high above us. a huge avalanche released about 1000 vertical meters above us and started its way down towards us. 
we were right in the way of it at the bottom of the valley! we started to move sideways as fast as we cold, i was happy i already had my poles out for pushing.  luckily the whole thing was forced into a natural channel, otherwise it would have swept us away, since the top part was more than a kilometer wide...... 
as the avalanche came closer, it slowed down because the snow was so wet. so we managed to get out of its way before getting buried under hundreds of tons of snow.
after the huge thing had stopped, we went silent and embraced each other, happy about being so lucky.
however, since we did not dare anymore to move on following the way we had planed, we had to take a detour and arrived at the parking lot at 8pm at night. but we didn´t care - we were alive.
keep it up, much!


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