Why would he do that? He landed on his head.

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How deep was that snow? Holy crap!

man, whenever i see someone jumping down snowy slope i remember the avalanche that took with him 7 of my friends a month ago on a not so demanding 2000m high mountain some 10 km from where i live. they were on a training hike for alpine climbing course they attended. there were 15 people in the group and 2 of them were very experienced free climbers and mountaineers. this incident happend on 15th of december 2007. here's an article on one of our cable news channels. there are also some video clips of the rescue when they were piloted off the mountain down to where ambulances took them further to a hospital (just a block from where i live). one of the climbers was a co-woker of mine. he's into free climbing but has little less experience alpine climbing so he attented this course for some months before this happened. he got off well, just bruised and in shock. the avalanche started just 100m before they reached the peak. as it happened nobody expected any of that cause there was only 10-20cm of snow on ground. but it was snowing all night before and it was very windy. that caused the unstable, fresh powder to accumulate on top and they somehow tripped this huge patch of snow that drove them down a very steep slope through a gorge that ended some 300m downhill. there were also 6 other friends of mine, most with minor injuries, two girls had more severe injuries. i met one of them just last night, she got out of hospital few days earlier. she's got broken leg and she needed some surgery on her jaw. she was joking that she will always trip the airport alarms now that she's got 6 titanium plates in her jaw nice to see her smiling and so optimistic after something so shocking. she will still need few months of recovery before she's ok but all of them said that they feel really lucky and kinda reborn after that meet with matilda

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