--- title: Avalanche Video: This Is What It's Like to Get Caught in One description: A helmet cam video shows what it's like to get buried by snow canonical: https://time.com/3929279/avalanche-survive/ author: Daniel D'Addario article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-20T14:03:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T08:23:05.127Z article:section: Science og:title: This Is What It's Like to Get Caught in an Avalanche og:description: A helmet cam video shows what it's like to get buried by snow og:url: https://time.com/3929279/avalanche-survive/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt33638fd8631b2090/698855795f570f18f5b1c179/avalanche.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Mountain Landscape avalanche og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Is What It's Like to Get Caught in an Avalanche twitter:description: A helmet cam video shows what it's like to get buried by snow twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt33638fd8631b2090/698855795f570f18f5b1c179/avalanche.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Is What It's Like to Get Caught in an Avalanche  by [Daniel D'Addario](https://time.com/author/daniel-daddario/)  ## Daniel D'Addario Jun 20, 2015 2:03 PM UTC  Mountain Landscape Mountain LandscapeGetty Images  by [Daniel D'Addario](https://time.com/author/daniel-daddario/)  ## Daniel D'Addario Jun 20, 2015 2:03 PM UTC It’s every skier’s worst nightmare, but one that can indeed be survived. Kristoffer Carlsson survived an avalanche while skiing in 2011, and brought back helmet-cam video of the snow burying him. Experts say that the best way to survive in Carlsson’s scary situation is to do exactly what he did: Use your hands to create a pocket of air as the snow falls. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3929279/avalanche-survive/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3929279/avalanche-survive/"},"headline":"This Is What It's Like to Get Caught in an Avalanche","datePublished":"2015-06-20T14:03:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T08:23:05.127Z","description":"A helmet cam video shows what it's like to get buried by snow","url":"https://time.com/3929279/avalanche-survive/","keywords":["Science topic","nature","avalanche","Natural Disasters"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt33638fd8631b2090/698855795f570f18f5b1c179/avalanche.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel D'Addario","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-daddario/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt33638fd8631b2090/698855795f570f18f5b1c179/avalanche.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Mountain Landscape avalanche","caption":"Mountain Landscape avalanche","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"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":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3929279/avalanche-survive/","name":"This Is What It's Like to Get Caught in an Avalanche"}}]}] ```