Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek

Prietenii de la Feeder ne-au adus in prim plan o poveste foarte bine adaptata pentru web. E o poveste reala publicata in “The New York Times” care o are in prim plan pe Elyse Saugstad, skioare profesionista, prinsa de avalansa in Tunner Creek. Ce va recomandam, pe langa povestea supravietuirii unei avalanse si ce inseamna acest lucru, este modul original in care a fost adaptata povestea pentru web. Puteti citi articolul complet AICI

“Elyse Saugstad, a professional skier, wore a backpack equipped with an air bag, a relatively new and expensive part of the arsenal that backcountry users increasingly carry to ease their minds and increase survival odds in case of an avalanche. About to be overtaken, she pulled a cord near her chest. She was knocked down before she knew if the canister of compressed air inflated winged pillows behind her head.

She had no control of her body as she tumbled downhill. She did not know up from down. It was not unlike being cartwheeled in a relentlessly crashing wave. But snow does not recede. It swallows its victims. It does not spit them out.

Snow filled her mouth. She caromed off things she never saw, tumbling through a cluttered canyon like a steel marble falling through pins in a pachinko machine.

At first she thought she would be embarrassed that she had deployed her air bag, that the other expert skiers she was with, more than a dozen of them, would have a good laugh at her panicked overreaction. Seconds later, tumbling uncontrollably inside a ribbon of speeding snow, she was sure this was how she was going to die”