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Holly Pyne
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AVALANCHE! The terrifying video below captures the moment that Sorin-Alexandru Radu, a winter sports instructor from Bucharest, triggered an enormous snow-slide.
Radu was negotiating an off-piste ridge in the Parâng Mountains, a range of the Southern Carpathians in Romania, when a crack opened up under his snowboard.
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The video, captured by his head-mounted GoPro camera, shows how a gentle afternoon’s boarding turned into a full-on near-death experience. Forget brown trousers time, this is enough to give you sloppy salopettes.
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According to the Daily Mail, the Romanian survived. It’s not yet clear whether he sustained any injuries.
Turns out GoPro cameras have a use other than just showing off your gnarly moves on YouTube…
[via Sploid]
