--- title: Snowboarder Catches Avalanche Survival on GoPro description: He appeared to be unharmed canonical: https://time.com/3697431/snowboard-avalanche/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-05T18:11:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:16:34.955Z og:title: Watch a Snowboarder's Terrifying Video of Getting Caught in an Avalanche og:description: He appeared to be unharmed og:url: https://time.com/3697431/snowboard-avalanche/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch a Snowboarder's Terrifying Video of Getting Caught in an Avalanche twitter:description: He appeared to be unharmed twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch a Snowboarder's Terrifying Video of Getting Caught in an Avalanche by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Feb 5, 2015 6:11 PM UTC by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Feb 5, 2015 6:11 PM UTC Snowboarder Sorin Radu captured video footage on his GoPro that was probably a little more high-octane than he had anticipated. The snowboarder and mountain rescue volunteer inadvertently got caught in an avalanche while going down Papusa Mountain in Gorj, Romania—and he caught it on video. About 17 seconds into the video, viewers can see the snow start to shift under Radu’s board. He is then overtaken by snow. Luckily, Radu emerged apparently unharmed. (h/t: [Mashable](http://mashable.com/2015/02/05/snowboarder-gopro-avalanche/)) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3697431/snowboard-avalanche/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3697431/snowboard-avalanche/"},"headline":"Watch a Snowboarder's Terrifying Video of Getting Caught in an Avalanche","datePublished":"2015-02-05T18:11:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:16:34.955Z","description":"He appeared to be unharmed","url":"https://time.com/3697431/snowboard-avalanche/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","snow","GoPro","avalanche"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3697431/snowboard-avalanche/","name":"Watch a Snowboarder's Terrifying Video of Getting Caught in an Avalanche"}}]}] ```