A New Hampshire man skiing on Mount Washington last weekend was left with broken bones after both triggering, then getting swept away by an avalanche, and the entire event was caught on not one, but two cameras. The resulting footage not only reveals how the avalanche was triggered, but what the terrifying experience was like from the skier’s point of view.
Dominick Torro was skiing down an area of Mount Washington known as “Airplane Gully” on Mount Washington when he triggered a 15-foot-wide “hard slab” avalanche, which he then got caught up in.
