This is the incredible moment a missing hiker buried under snow managed to wave down a rescue chopper - with only his head and one arm free.<br /><br />The footage, filmed by paramedic Mathieu Lambert, shows the man desperately waving with his only free limb as the helicopter shined a light on the mountain.<br /><br />The young man, who has not been named, had been ski touring in the Lidairdes region of Switzerland when an avalanche hit. <br /><br />His family alerted rescue services when he didn't return on time.<br /><br />Air Glaciers, a rescue and transport company, received the alert at 5:41 pm on February 8 and dispatched a helicopter with a paramedic and two rescue guides.<br /><br />The team first checked the car-park where the man had started his journey to ensure that he had not returned to his car.<br /><br />They then began flying over the route he had provided his family.<br /><br />The team eventually located visible tracks and dropped one of the guides to trace them.<br /><br />Miraculously, only using the search light on the helicopter, the team was able to spot the man's arm waving at them and extract him from a large pile of snow blocks.<br /><br />He was then hoisted 30 meters up to safety.
