Extraordinary Rescue of Japanese Skier Who Disappeared in Deep Powder

This footage was posted earlier this month by freestyle skier Koji Saitoto.

He films his friend disappearing into a glide crack and then getting completely buried by the sluff that follows.

Koji is an experienced skier and was skiing on a local mountain near Sapporo at only 500m of elevation, a place that he had skied “many times before”.

In this case, Koji managed to save his friend’s life, and all riders made it down to the bottom of the hill without injury.