Torben Gregersen
Thailand
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Off-piste ski guide & -instructor operating in St. Anton am Arlberg also working as a PADI Scuba-Dive Instructor on Koh Tao,Thailand, and a passionate photographer.

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  • Video comment
    3 months ago
    Torben Gregersen commented on Randall Stacy 2

    Well he can't know if the snow is going to collapse, but always going off-piste, make sure that if somethings goes, that nobody is below you, it's just common sense.

  • Video comment
    3 months ago
    Torben Gregersen commented on Avalanche Skier POV Helmet Cam Burial & Rescue in Haines, Alaska

    Thanks for sharing this video, it's very good for training purposes. And as you mention the guide was acting very fast and professional. The guy buried was very lucky that he got found so quickly.

    I and most of my clients are all skiing with ABS backpacks, which will in general make you end up at the surface. It's all about not getting buried, the snow will in not many more minutes start packing and you will not be able to raise your chest anymore, so even an Avalung might not help you, and as you state he did not get the tube all the way in his mouth, which is another problem with the Avalung. Check out abs-airbag.com/home.php?chid=1&lang=uk&m=17

    Another think which I can not say anything about is, what was the level of avalanche risk that particular day, and your talking about a crown of 1-1.5m, so that indicates some unstable layers from earlier on in the winter, which even with the snow-pit you digged, would be very difficult to predict, because obviously, you did not dig it where the avalanche broke.

    Just a few thoughts from my side, can't help it and once again thanks for the video.

  • Video comment
    4 months ago
    Torben Gregersen commented on Randall Stacy 2

    Not very clever of him, thinking about all the people standing below the run. If that would have happened in Italy, he would spend time in jail. In Austria he would get a big fine, luckily nobody got killed. That would have been very hard for a kid like that. Think about what you do in the backcountry....

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