Watch as a helicopter from the Peloton de Gendarmerie de Haute Montagne (French Mountain Police) shows off some pretty remarkable skills.
An avalanche is every snowboarder and skier’s worst nightmare, but if you happen to have an ‘avalanche airbag’ you might live to tell the tale.
The Alps sure are getting a fair amount of news time the past few weeks. If it’s not airplanes crashing or being diverted, it’s avalanches.
So how do you go about trying to financially compensate families who have lost loved ones due to flying your airline? Lufthansa are digging deep, but is it deep enough?
It is quite terrifying how a big and solid airplane can simply be torn into a thousand pieces and scattered around a mountainside like confetti.