Category Archives: Rescues

(English) Avalanche Rescue Caught on Video

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(English) Statement from BCA about “viral” airbag video

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(English) Pro snowboarder saved by Float

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(English) Kitzbuhel avalanche: the ultimate airbag test

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Dramatic father-son T2 rescue in NZ

In a dramatic avalanche rescue in New Zealand, a 19-year-old Queenstown teenager rescued his father with an avalanche rescue transceiver.

Miracle in La Baqueira: first-hand account of a Tracker rescue in Spain

Fer Barrios recounts his rescue last season in the Catalon Pyrenees of Spain using his Tracker DTS avalanche transceiver.

Dick Howe Talks about His First Avalanche-in the early 1940′s

No beacons, no probes, no shovels. One death and one near miss.

I was talking to a guy the other day about backcountry skiing and he used the phrase “back in the day…” and he was about 35 years old. This is the real deal from “back in the day:”

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Buried in Telluride: Snowboarder’s first-hand account of Ophir avi rescue

Nick Dillsworth describes the avalanche near Telluride, Colorado in which he was buried with his Avalung, then rescued by his brother Joe, who was using an avalanche transceiver. Nick says he is now in the market for a Float avalanche airbag.

BCA tech rep Nick Armitage locates Teton avi victims

BCA tech rep Nick Armitage located the transmit signals of Gregory Seftick and Walter Kuhl on Saturday in Garnet Canyon, in Grand Teton National Park. The two victims succumbed to an avalanche while camped in the basin during a snowstorm the weekend before. After six days of searching with probe lines, dog teams, and Recco detectors, Armitage picked up a faint signal with his Tracker2 avalanche transceiver. The victims were buried 13 feet deep and were evacuated by helicopter on Easter Sunday.

BCA Float 30 in Action! AK Style…

A helmet cam video from Jeff Wyshynski shows first-hand how a Float 30 avalanche airbag from Backcountry Access (BCA) can save a life.