“I could feel all the snow coming down on top of me. The pressure, the pressure. It was so intense I couldn’t move my arms; not even my fingers. Then quickly the snow set as hard as concrete. I was stuck, head down in the snow, for three minutes. It was the longest three minutes of my life.”
In 2005, while skiing in La Clusaz, Steph Chetoux was dragged down the mountain in an avalanche. Once he came to rest, fortunately his ski boot was poking out from the snow, so that his colleagues could quickly dig him out. The Frenchman was lucky to emerge unscathed.
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