He survived seven hours under the avalanche. “Sensation”

The avalanche descent took place on Tuesday afternoon in the Lyngen commune in North Norway. The masses of snow were kidnapped by three foreign tourists. One of them was pushed into the water of a nearby fjord, but he managed to get to the shore. The man told the emergency services that two tourists remained, a woman and a man, found themselves under the snow.

The search action could not be started immediately due to the extreme avalanche threat – the services did not set off to the field in the evening. The conditions were very difficult, but after about five hours after the avalanche descent with rescuers, the man she was on, contacted. On a mobile phone, he announced that he had stuck under the snow – he was conscious and claimed that he had not served serious injuries. The services maintained regular contact with the buried tourist, and finally after midnight they managed to extract it from under a 1.5 meter layer of snow.

– [Pogrzebani przez lawinę – przyp. red.] People usually suffocate within 10 minutes – said Audun Hetland, an avalanche researcher from the Arctic University of Tromso. – Some are experiencing longer. But seven hours are almost a historic sensation – he admitted.

The search for a second imprisoned person was conducted until Wednesday morning, but due to the deteriorating weather conditions, they were suspended until 11 o'clock. Actions are still carried out on the spot, but the fate of the woman remains unknown.

The Norwegian Directorate for Water Resources and Energy (NVE) reported on Tuesday that in the area where the avalanche has gone down, there is a red level of avalanche threat. In many places, large avalanches can break spontaneously. From Tuesday morning there were several landslides in the Tromso region, so many roads remain closed.