This is the latest ABS success story that has been uploaded to the internet by ABS Avalanche Airbags. They did the same thing around this time last year with a video of freeskier Aymar Navarro deploying his ABS while freeskiing in the Spanish Pyreneese Mountains.
The video from Spain took some fire for painting the ABS bag as an easy way out of massive avalanches. This latest clip of Geraldine offers a more balanced approach to using the product and drives home the fact that she has a backcountry skill set that goes well beyond simply wearing an airbag.
Here’s the video from last year: http://maintenance.biglines.com/video/freeskier-survives-avalanche-abs-bag
And here’s one of the heated responses to last year’s video:
http://www.powder.com/stories/the-safe-zone/op-ed-calling-bullsht/
This new video will probably ignite the embers of the old debate. But dialogue’s always a good thing. If people are at least talking about avalanches, it means that they’re thinking about them too.