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Professional Freestyle Skier Henrik Harlaut Overshoots Landing and Suffers Serious Hip Injury

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Swedish freestyle skier Henrik Harlaut dislocated his hip after overshot a landing while training on an airbag. The accident happened on Saturday, August 23, in Kläppen, Sweden. Harlaut was rushed to the hospital by paramedics. There, his hip was put back in place and he was rereleased.“Took a heavy slam yesterday and dislocated my (…) Crazy sensation having the lower […]
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Aerosize Vest ONE – The World’s First Certified Avalanche Airbag Vest

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Aerosize recently released the ‘Vest ONE’, the world’s first certified avalanche airbag vest. Avalanche airbags have been proven to be lifesavers for those unlucky enough to be caught in an avalanche, but traditional avalanche airbags are big, bulky, heavy, and unwieldy pieces of kit. Aerosize hopes to change that, with the introduction of their Vest ONE. You can now carry the […]
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Avalanche partially buries snowmobiler near Apex Mountain Resort, BC

British Columbia native Sam Johnson was sledding with a group of snowmobilers in the Powder 8 area southwest of Penticton, BC near Apex Mountain Resort when he was caught in a human-triggered avalanche and partially buried, Global News reports. Johnson was descending into a gully between two mountains when several slides came down, including one behind him and another in […]
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VIDEO: Freeskier Survives HUGE Avalanche with ABS Backpack

In January 2013, Aymar Navarro was filming in the Aran Valley in the Spanish Pyranees with a camera crew. It had been snowing for days, dumping over four feet of fresh powder in the mountains. Navarro, along with his crew and a mountain guide, opted for a less exposed, flat slope to film in an attempt to minimize risk. “3, 2, 1 jump, then a few turns, when I suddenly realized that the entire hillside collapsed very quickly,” said Navarro […]
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One Airbag Feature You Need To Use That You Probably Don’t

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A case study from the fall edition of the Canadian Avalanche Association’s publication The Avalanche Journal details the death of a skier in Revelstoke and brings light to one feature on many airbag backpack systems you might not have even heard about: the crotch strap. The author, a key analyst of the incident for CAA and aid for both the RCMP and BC Corners Service, noted that the failure to use the crotch strap while in avalanche […]

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TGR Producer Caught & Injured in Avalanche @ Jackson Hole on Sunday:

Greg Epstein, the TGR supervising producer, was caught in an avalanche on Sunday afternoon just outside of Jackson Hole. The slide occurred approximately 2pm and carried Epstein nearly 1000 vertical feet. Epstein was the only member of the three-person party to be caught in the slide, and the other two members were able to come to his aid. Epstein was not buried by the slide, and it has been reported that he was able to deploy his avalanche air bag, which would help him remain on top of the avalanche debris. Once the party reached Epstein emergency response was notified. Jackson Hole […]
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