2 videos within 3 days?? Hell yeah

Avalanche scientist and passionate backcountry skier from Switzerland here. First of all, thanks a lot for the well-produced, animated and researched video! One small detail however: Technically, avalanche airbags do not increase your survival chances by increasing your buoyancy but thanks to 'granular convection' aka 'the Brazil nut effect': Avalanches are a granular flow process, in which bigger particles tend move to the surface while smaller particles get buried deeper down since they fall into smaller spaces. The airbag simply makes the skier a 'bigger particle', increasing your chances of ending up at the surface. (Even with the inflated airbag, your density is still higher than the one of typical dry avalanche snow, so buoyancy would actually pull you down)

I'm a ski patroller in Alaska, and I want to thank you for bringing attention to how deadly avalanches are. Getting a beacon, probe, and avalanche shovel are great first steps, but you must make sure you are trained and practiced with each tool.

Its wild he thought, "Dang I am lucky to be alive right now.... Oh well, back to work!" Lmaooo

This is why I love Veretasium. They're out here asking the real wuestions, like " how do I write off a ski trip as a business expense?"

I recently lost a good friend of mine in an avalanche. Thanks for making this video and informing people about this deadly danger!

I live in the Sierra Nevada. Last winter, a large avalanche buried a several mile section of highway under 30-50 feet of concrete-like debris, essentially leaving my town cutoff from the north. It took them a month to clear it and even longer to make the necessary repairs! This winter, a dear friend of mine was fully buried for nearly 13 minutes in a large Persistent Slab Avalanche. Miraculously, he survived with only scrapes and bruises. Spot on video and messaging!

"The best way to avoid an avalanche is not to be caught in one.", he says while being surrounded by palm trees. This is why he has one of the best science channels.

This is honestly a better avalanche awareness video then anything else on youtube. Only thing left is how to interpreter layers and what those interpretations mean. Very nice job.

The recount by Bruce Tremper of his narrow escape from an avalanche is a sobering reminder of the raw power of nature.

I’m an avalanche educator and apprentice mountain guide. I am only a minute in but can promise I will share this with students and am so glad you are covering what I find so fascinating

For the non-backcountry riding viewer--avalanches can happen to hikers and snowshoers too! For sure a lot less likely, but even if you're not hiking something steep, you might be traversing a slope, on a ridge between slopes, on a cornice (hopefully not), or connected to a steep slope. It's good to check conditions even if you're "just" going for a snowshoe or winter hike, especially after a storm! Excellent video!

As someone who has been caught in what turned out to be a 3 scale avalanche on the off side of the ski slope while snow hiking during winter it is every bit majestic and killer as you might think, and the damn thing is quiet, you would feel it more than you could hear it. A shovel and alert companions were the reason why I was saved from being buried alive. I honestly felt like a rag doll in a tumble dryer while it was sweeping me off my feet and down the mountain side.

Thanks for being one of the best science communicators on YouTube. Channels like yours remind me why the sciences were my favorite subjects.

I was trapped 1,5m deep in an avalanche in about 2 hours, and survived. I was lucky that my head was between two rocks that made a big enough cavity for me to breathe for those hours. The best thing i remember was the total silence and the panic that i might not beem found before it was too late. And the feeling when someone responded to my shouting. Ant then seeing the lingt when the rescuers dug me out. Sadly, two people did not survive 😥. To this day, i still have contact with the person who pulled me out. I owed my life to him.

Huge round of applause for Jakub Misiek, Fabio Albertelli, Alex Zepherin, Alex Drakoulis, Ivy Tello, David Szakaly, Leigh Williamson, and more for making the wonderful illustrations and animations of these videos! They deserve a raise. The animations and illustrations are so awesome, well done, and informative. So huge props to them 👏👏👏

Thank you for this. Side note, I work search and rescue myself but it's industrial confined space rescue. 65% of victims' deaths are would be rescuers. There's many types of rescue and disaster prevention. All of it stays with curious minds passionate about solving a problem for the greater good. The amount of science and engineering that goes into my equipment and tactics is deep.

Major props to the animation team for this one; showing how white material interacts with other similar white material (snow on snow) is quite a data-visualization challenge, and they did a great job!

2 videos within 4 days. What a treat.

Veritasium video feat Nikolai Schirmer what a time to be alive