SCARY AVALANCHE CAUGHT ON CAMERA<br />WITH VID<br />BY TIM TONG<br />Watch the dramatic moment a huge avalanche thunders down the Stubai Glacier in Austria, all filmed by a mountain rescuer who happened to be on the scene.<br />Dawid Wiewiórski, a professional rescuer from Jelenia Góra, Poland, captured the footage from the base of the mountain less than a hundred metres away.<br />The video shows a massive wall of snow cascading down the slope, roaring as it swallows skiers below.<br />Dawid is part of GOPR Karkonosze, the Polish mountain rescue service that just so was in a training session on the glacier when the avalanche began.<br />Dawid said: “A few of them were buried under the snow.”<br />“Fortunately, nearby were many professional rescuers from GOPR KARKONOSZE, Polish mountain rescue service who had training on the Glacier.”<br />“Along with Horska sluzba, mountain rescuers from Czech Republic who were at the slope and other witnesses started searching for the victims.”<br />ENDS
