Sugarloaf Mountain avalanche leaves skier buried up to his neck – NECN
A skier at Maine's Sugarloaf Mountain was buried in snow up to his neck after a 50-foot-wide avalanche last weekend.
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A skier at Maine's Sugarloaf Mountain was buried in snow up to his neck after a 50-foot-wide avalanche last weekend.
Nik Krueger leaped into action after seeing a fellow skier get “swallowed” in an avalanche on Sugarloaf Mountain in Maine.
The avalanche at Sugarloaf happened amid a storm that dumped 2 feet of snow on parts of Maine.
A man was dug from the snow after getting caught in a small avalanche at Sugarloaf Mountain in Maine on Sunday.
“If it had been a larger amount of snow and less terrain underneath, someone could have definitely been really, really injured,” said Nik Krueger, a 27-year-old engineer who coached and clawed both men out of several feet of snow, said Tuesday.