It’s a treacherous terrain, if we were to close that area, we’d have to close the whole mountain,” he says. Tuckerman Ravine, which is about a 20-minute drive from North Conway, New Hampshire, offers backcountry skiing and is known for its rocky trail and steep slopes “which allow daredevils to hurtle down the mountain at wildly acute angles,” according to 57hours, a website for outdoor adventure enthusiasts.įongemie says that in recent memory two people have died in falls into those holes. Hikers start up then 10 min later before they reach him we see his helmet, then head as he climbs up and out soaking wet. “ Then nothing else for another 5 min so we think he’s stuck at the bottom of the crevasse and threw the snowboard out to signal he needed help to get out. Then his snowboard came up out of the crevasse so everyone cheers,” Weeks wrote. No sign of life for 5 min so everyone thought he was dead. Hundreds of people in the bowl all went quiet.

“Saw this happen up at Tuckerman Ravine yesterday. John Weeks, who shared a link to the unbelievable video on Instagram, said he was there when the snowboarder fell. Rescuers put him in a “litter” and a cover similar to a sleeping bag to warm him up and brought him down the mountain to some sun where he swapped into some warm clothes and walked out on his own. He was completely soaking wet and was very cold,” Fongemie says. “That outcome was a pleasant surprise.”įongemie spoke with the snowboarder after a volunteer ski patrol member intercepted him to see if he was ok. People have died in there,” says Jeff Fongemie.

The acting director of the Mount Washington Avalanche Center tells Boston 25 that those holes can be 50+ feet deep.

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