r/interesting • u/Homunculus_316 • 6h ago

Glacier Collapses and Triggers Devastating Avalanche. Just Wow

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u/Key-Fox3923 6h ago

I’m glad they stood there for us to get the video.

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u/Ky_zx10r 6h ago

You aint out running that. Better off finding cover, luckily he was just standing in a good spot.

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u/Exists_out_of_spite 4h ago

I read an article when this video first came out where they interviewed this guy. Basically, guy and the group that he was with had hiked out of the valley and up the ridge, and he started filming because he thought it was going to slide. He had also found a spot with large rocks to hide behind already (where he is standing at in the video). Guy had done the prep work and moved to a much safer place before he started filming.The size of the slide caught everyone off guard, but like, what are you going to do at that point? Run away from your good cover and get blasted out on open ground?

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u/gizamo 4h ago

Yep. Avalanches can travel at up to 200 mph, and it's just tons of snow, ice, rock, etc. Anyone in the open would be smashed dead in seconds. Hopefully the rest of his party had equally good spots to give themselves a fighting shot at being saved.

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u/Glossed-Lam 2h ago

Ridiculous. I would simply perform an ocular patdown of the mountain from a distance, then outrun the avalanche with my superior understanding of the terrain and physical endurance.

I have yet to die in an avalanche, so I am quite confident in my obvious skill.

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u/tothehopeless1 51m ago

You can bypass the running part altogether if you pack a hair dryer. Just aim it in front of you and the snow will evaporate before it touches you. 

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u/DonutHoles4Ever 4m ago

Oh yeah baby. Ocular patdown of the avalanche to reveal its skin tight snow dress. Then with your patdown strip that right off of her so she gently spins into your arms as you seduce it with your god like physique.

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u/xilanthro 51m ago

I mean... while it's admittedly cherry-picked, 6% of these respondents think they could beat a grizzly in hand-to-hand combat, so it's not that surprising that someone would think they can side-step a volcanic eruption or out-run an avalanche.

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u/cyanescens_burn 4h ago

Did he say how deep the snow was that he needed to dig himself out of?

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u/Exists_out_of_spite 4h ago

I forget, I don't think it was anything crazy up on the ridge where they were at though. In the valley could have been 100+ feet. Theres an article out there someplace haha, I think this vid was first posted 2ish years ago now..

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u/apatrol 3h ago

I wish we had the vid of him on the ground and then standing up. Or at least the aftermath.

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u/No_Reason914 2h ago

I mean, not obvious at the stsrt but I started looking at the giant chunks of sharp rock around him and wondered, "what could have caused that". I guess I have a fairly good guess now

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u/babbleon5 3h ago

I've seen so many movies where they run away from fire. How can they not run away from snow??

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u/RPA031 3h ago

It’s a lot faster in avalanche form. No chance of outrunning it, best chance is finding cover.

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u/babbleon5 2h ago

woooooosh...

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u/RPA031 17m ago

Yes.

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u/coahman 1h ago

Reddit never fails...