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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: How To Survive An Avalanche [Watch (HLS stream): How To Survive An Avalanche](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/2ByLa3N0.m3u8) (3:33)  _Published 2014-02-12. How To Survive An Avalanche_ --- Jul 27, 2023 4:13 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [An Avalanche Barrels Down A Colorado Mountainside](/video/rqO0fdZP/) ### An Avalanche Barrels Down A Colorado Mountainside [More Than 150 Killed By Deadly Avalanche in Colombia](/video/EuUW5K6r/) ### More Than 150 Killed By Deadly Avalanche in Colombia [The Boy Who Survived](/video/yYHNwAQN/) ### The Boy Who Survived --- ## Transcript >> A back country ski outing in Switzerland that is about to turn into a horrifying experience. Christopher Carlson, who was wearing a helmet cam, came very close to documenting his own death. It's an avalanche. He is buried about five feet under the snow, unable to move. Carlson is hoping the skiers he was with find him before he suffocates. And they do. He is a very lucky man. On the average, in the U. S ., 28 people die each year from avalanches, often with hundreds of tons of snow plummeting down the mountain. I ski at Colorado's Copper Mountain with one of the top avalanche experts in the United States. >> How are the conditions? >> Good for skiing. Ethan Green is the director of the Colorado Avalanche Information Center. His State Agency's responsibility in part, to forecast the probability of avalanches. >> This is Mayflower Gulch. >> And he takes me away from the resort and into the back country where most avalanches occur, to learn about the three essentials for back country skiers. >> Beacon, probe and shovel. >> Beacon, probe, shovel. >> That's right. >> Those are the three things you have to have with you. >> That's right. >> The beacon. >> We all put on one of these and turn them on so they are transmitting. They are sending out a signal, and then later in the day, if you get buried in an avalanche I will be able to set mine to receive, pick up your signal and locate you. >> The probe and the shovel. >> Yeah, this is a three- meter probe pole. So what this allows me to do is once I get your general location with the beacon, I can pinpoint you with this probe and then use the shovel to dig down to the tip. >> There is also this fourth item that can keep you above the rampaging snow threatening to bury you, the air bag pack. We dug a three- foot deep hole in the snow to simulate where an avalanche victim might be trapped. Our plan, to send Ethan Green up the mountain with his beacon in receive mode to try to pick up my signal from a hole where I will wait for a rescue. Our producer, Chris [ unk ], puts the finishing touches on my snow cave and I wait in the dark underground. Okay, as I am turning on to receive. No signal right away. But quickly-- >> We got a signal. >> It tells him how close he is getting. >> 16 meters, 13 meters. >> The beacon works like a charm. >> Okay, I'm less than a meter. I have a strike. >> Wow. It was quite unsettling under there. I'm glad your beacon worked. >> Me too. >> Thanks. >> Yes. >> Of course, I was always safe in my controlled environment. In real life a victim sometimes doesn't even have a chance in a huge avalanche. >> It's so dense that you're not going to be able to dig yourself out. 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