Some ski patrollers are wearing avalanche backpacks that inflate to keep them at the top of a snow slide instead of getting buried underneath several feet of snow and possibly suffocating.

Snowboarder Tom Oye is shown being caught up in an avalanche this week in Whistler, Canada. (Tom Oye Facebook Photo) A quick-thinking snowboarder who pulled the trigger on his inflatable backpack ...

Now picture being caught in an avalanche ... the backpack on, it was surprisingly light, similar in weight to a normal pack filled with a book or two. Featuring the same chest clip as the standard ...

A snowboarder caught in a terrifying avalanche miraculously escaped with his life after being saved by his inflatable backpack. Tom Oye, 29, from Adelaide, Australia, posted the footage on ...

A survivor of the Washington state avalanche that killed three skiers on Sunday said her backpack saved her life. “All the people in the party were properly equipped and experienced backcountry ...

SANTA CRUZ (KCBS) — A professional skier from Santa Cruz using a specialized safety backpack survived getting caught in an avalanche near Seattle that killed three other skiers. Elyse Saugstad ...

A solo skier swept away and buried chest-deep by an avalanche near Salt Lake City was saved by another skier, Utah officials say. Salt Lake County Search and Rescue A solo skier wound up buried ...