Il salvataggio di una donna sepolta da una valanga

Un gruppo di sciatori, tra cui i quali lo snowboarder professionista Victor Liebenguth, hanno soccorso due donne rimaste sepolte sotto una valanga di neve su una montagna a Verbier, in Svizzera, secondo  quanto riferisce The Sun. 
 

 

 

 

 

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Avalanche in Verbier, Switzerland. Thursday 30th of January was a hard day, almost one meter of powder landed on a four weeks dry terrain, the avalanche risk was so high (4/5). We were riding some snug couloirs in @verbier area when we saw an important avalanche going down next door Creblet pass. Maybe 10 people riding at the same time, on the same face. No security precautions at all. Unfortunately two girls were snowboarding in the middle of the face and the avalanche hit them so hard. We were the first on site and immediately started to do the beacon research. We quickly found the first one, second one was 70m down the face and quickly rescued as well. While digging out the girls people around continued to ski in every directions and the inevitable happened, second avalanche hit the area and a third person got stocked in it. Fuck tat was scary. @verbier is the freeride mecca and everyone riding outside the slopes should have the right equipment, get informed of the conditions and more importantly get trained to mountain safety with institutes like @istaeducation to have the right reflex and knowledges. Usually not a big fan of watching that kind of content on the socials but I hope this will help a bit in motivating people to get educated. Here is a condensed 50s of the accident, think it’s enough. #gettrained #istaeducation #avalanche #verbier

Un post condiviso da Victor Liebenguth (@victorliebenguth) in data: 17 Feb 2020 alle ore 9:27 PST

Un video, che documenta il salvataggio, mostra una delle vittime, completamente coperta dalla neve e che a malapena riesce a chiedere aiuto. Inoltre, si possono notare i soccorritori che supportati dalle pale scavano senza sosta per liberare la donna e la sua amica che si trova a qualche metro di distanza. 

Nonostante gli attimi di angoscia, entrambe le donne sono rimaste incolumi. Liebenguth ha diffuso il video su Instagram per sensibilizzare sull'importanza di informarsi sulle condizioni meteorologiche prima di andare in montagna.