Survivors share harrowing experience in new avalanche safety initiative “It was really, really hard work and I was on the verge of just losing it the entire time, but had to hold it together to try to dig her out.
When we got to her her legs were upslope from her and she was blue, and we didn’t get a pulse… We had to dig her out that took another 40 minutes,” he said.“It was horrific and finally the search and rescue crew came… we bundled her up to try to keep her warm.
They long lined her out and then they came and got Kevin and me. And at that point I just collapsed mentally, you’re underneath the helicopter and I just started screaming and crying,” he said.“Things were looking pretty grim, we hadn’t had a pulse in a couple of.