Details are sparse on this avalanche video but from what we gather from the comment section the slide happened in Slovakia and the skier survived but suffered a broken foot. The avalanche airbag worked as advertised keeping the skier above the debris flow but the skier still had to contend with an uncontrolled descent through a maze of rock walls.

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