Heart-stopping footage from the French Alps has captured the miraculous extraction of a backcountry skier who plunged nearly 15 meters (50 feet) straight down into a concealed glacier crevasse. Trapped between towering walls of solid ice with freezing temperatures closing in, the skier avoided fatal impact injuries and was located by a quick-thinking companion. A coordinated rope-and-harness rescue operation successfully hoisted the victim back to the surface without life-threatening trauma, underscoring the hidden dangers of early-season alpine snowpacks.
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