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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. โ€œ3, 2, 1 jump, then a few turns, when I suddenly realized that the entire hillside collapsed very quickly,โ€ said Navarro [โ€ฆ]

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ameliatraynor | April 24, 2015
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