The weather contributed
to a terrifying experience for one Dundee
woman.
Stephanie White was one
of 12 experienced climbers ascending on Mount Washington, heading towards the
summit observatory in New Hampshire
last week.
The group was making a
documentary.
There was a moderate
avalanche hazard that day, and just before night fall… it happened.
"The whole gully
let loose from the top all the way down," says White. "It broke loose deep in
the snow layers and it slid on an ice layer."
White says it was a full
blown avalanche.
"There was a point
where the avalanche snow hit me in the face," she says. "It started going up
and over my head, and I couldn't hold on any longer, and then I was pulled
backwards in the snow."
After being buried by
snow, her team of trained mountaineers made it out safely, though some
sustained injuries.
White is just grateful
no one was injured worse.
"It didn't hurt. It
wasn't cold," she says. "It was sort of this surreal, falling backwards kind of
thing."
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