Joe Philpott, a smokejumper who worked out of Boise, Idaho, was killed in an avalanche on Cameron Pass near Fort Collins March 2, 2013. That of course is a tragedy, but his skiing buddy was buried in the same avalanche for three hours and survived. The Denver Post produced the video above, and published a gripping story about the rescue. Here is a very brief excerpt about the survivor, Alex White.
…His body temperature was 72 degrees. He had been buried in snow for three hours. He arrived at the emergency room nearly six hours after his burial and five hours after he had surrendered to a darkness that never came.
In spite of suffering some serious injuries and spending two days in critical care and two in post-trauma recovery, Mr. White was back in school a week after the accident.
Thanks go out to Brendan
