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.

Tim Konrad, founder of Unofficial Networks, is a skier with over 20 years in the ski industry. Starting the blog in 2006 from Lake Tahoe with his brother John, the website has grown into one of the world’s...