A work in progress, compiled by
Bruce Tremper
Avalanche Specialist
Forest Service Utah Avalanche Center
801-231-4744
btremper@fs.fed.us
This list contains much of the good avalanche video and film footage of which I
am aware. This is certainly not an
exhaustive list. I will update this
list as I hear of other sources. Please notify me of any good video you have
seen on the news, in skiing, snowboarding or snowmobiling films, etc. This was last updated in February, 2000. High quality professional footage is marked
with an asterix.
Alaska Department of Transportation
Contact: Terry Onslow
907-783-2772
Various footage of avalanches in motion both dry slides and wet slides, many of
them crossing the Seward Highway. Shot from the road, mostly without a tripod.
Source VHS
* Alaska Stock Agency
Contact: David Hoffmann
Tel 907-562-5245
Fax 907-562-7245
E-mail: asa@asafootage.com
Web site: www.asafootage.com
Alaska Stock Agency has spectacular footage of avalanche control work along the
Seward Highway and the Alaska Railroad, avalanches in motion and cannons. 35
mm, 16 mm and video. Prices depend upon
usage.
Austrian
Broadcasting Corporation (ORF)
43 1
87878-12757 T
43-1-87878-14517 F
Contact:
Andrea Ubellacker
andrea.uebellacker@orf.at
Spectacular home video of a snowmobiler getting caught in an avalanche with subsequent rescue and live recovery, shot in Colorado in February of 2000. Aired on several Colorado television stations.
Contact:
Kirk Ashmore 907-926-9677
Aspen Ski Company/Highland Ski Patrol
970-925-1222
Shot on VHS, hand held of large avalanche in Highland Bowl, Photographer Mac
Smith
Also see higher quality footage of the same avalanche from
Greg Hensley Productions (see below)
130
Spadina Avenue
Suite
401
Toronto,
ON M5V 2L4
416
362-3223 T
416 362
3553 F
Contact:
Renee Ruel
British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Highways
604-387-7516
mothsnow@pop.gov.bc.ca
Has 9 tapes on avalanches, some have to be licensed. Good source.
Canadian Avalanche Center
604-837-2435
Good clearinghouse for avalanches resources in Canada.
* Discovery Channel World of Wonder
Contact: Angela Aeillo
818-753-3400
Produced 15 minute documentary on avalanches which aired on Discovery Channel
during the winter of 1996.
Latest from the Discovery Channel
Made by Pioneer Productions in England (see below)
Available from www.discover.com
Phil Eastley (last know address was Aspen, CO. Contact Dave Hamre from
Anchorage, Alaska for a current address), has some very spectacular footage
shot during a MAJOR avalanche cycle which occurred in southcentral Alaska in
March of 1979. Footage includes 200 year old trees being thrown up out of
the powderblast of a class 5 avalanche, miles of the Seward Hwy buried under
tones of snow, and some nice slab failure sequences. The bad news is that he has never been known to let anyone use
the footage. Good luck.
Guy Finlay
email:- glisse@alpha.net.au
phone: - 61 - 2 - 9974 4248
mobile:- 61 - 419 612 661
or Family address :- 99 Frenchs Forest Rd.
Seaforth, N.S.W.
2092 Australia
Spectacular home video (8mm) of three people triggering entire face of a
mountain and escaping. Shot in France but Guy Finlay is from Australia. This
sequence has played on several national TV documentaries.
Great Basin Productions
Box 281176
Lamoille NV 89828
(775) 753-5008
Contact: Joe Royer
Joe Royer runs Ruby Mountain Helicopter Skiing and has stock footage of
avalanches in motion taken from a helicopter in the Ruby Mountains of Nevada.
* Greg Hensley Productions
Contact: Greg Hensley
970-927-9198
www.greghensley.com
Hensley@sopris.net
Spectacular avalanche in Highland Bowl at Aspen shot from
tripod, also helicopter shots of avalanches.
Some slow motion. 16mm film and
transferred to video. Calving glaciers
in Alaska. Time lapse of mountains,
snow, clouds, wildlife, etc.
Price depends on usage.
* Kroschel Films
Steve Kroshel has been shooting footage of avalanches in Alaska and British Columbia since 1995 and has a considerable amount of spectacular avalanche footage shot from helicopters, crash boxes in the runout zone, and fixed mounts. Footage includes buildings, tents, dummies, and snowmachines being hit by powderblast, fracturing avalanches. Mostly 35mm film.
Steve Kroschel
2937 330 Ave.
Hinckley, MN, 55037,
Phone 1-888-428-1283
FAX 320-384-6942
kroshelfilms@ncis.com
* Warren Miller
Warren Miller is America's grandfather of ski films. He invented the medium.
And they remain the largest ski film company. They have numerous spectacular film clips of skiers getting
caught in avalanches in 16mm shot by the best shooters in the business. It's expensive though.
303-998-7281
Contact: Rob DeBarros
www.warrenmiller.com
KTVA Anchorage
907-562-3456
Avalanche rescue footage
KUTV Salt Lake City (Channel 2)
801-973-3219
Varrious Avalanche News Stories
KSL Salt Lake City (Channel 5)
801-575-5500
Varrious Avalanche News Stories
KTVX Salt Lake City (Channel 4)
801-975-4444
Varrious Avalanche News Stories
KUSA Channel 9 Denver
Good footage of actual avalanche rescue with rescue dogs, etc.
KCNC Channel 4 Denver
Video of avalanche dust cloud coming past trees and engulfing a snowplow crew
and the video camera.
Eivind Kopperdal
011-47-53-64-36-75
Slow moving wet avalanche destroys several houses in Odda Norway. Hand held
home video.
Matchstick Productions produces extreme skiing and snowboarding films for the public. They have a good collection of people getting caught in avalanches with perhaps 15 “epic” shots.
Contact: Steve Winter
907-349-0860
Mspfilms.com
hedonist@crestedbutte.net
NRK-International Archives Sales-Norway
Contact: Lynn Granaas, Archives Sales Manager
011-47-23-04-96-78 ph
011-47-23-04-73-10 fax
News footage of Norwegian avalanches
Great
historical footage
A search
can be performed on their website:
www.nara.gov
* National Geographic Television
Contact: film librarian
818-506-8300
Two different documentaries on avalanches. Airs occasionally on TBS.
* Pioneer Productions (England)
01753-653-939
Produced an hour long avalanche film documentary for Channel 2 in England.
Aired in the winter of 1996 on Discovery Channel in the U.S. under Raging
Planet - Avalanche. Features many spectacular shots of avalanches in motion and
some people getting caught in avalanches.
* Real Action Pictures (RAP) Entertainment Co.
Extensive footage of avalanches and people getting caught in avalanches. Spectacular sequence of a telemark skier
with old Norwegian-type pole triggering and being swept away in a slab
avalanche. Filmed at close range.
403-244-7000
www.rapfilms.com
30 minute avalanche awareness video especially for snowmobilers written and directed by Doug Abromeit of the Forest Service National Avalanche Center. Contains several sequences of snowmobilers getting caught in avalanches but most of this footage came from other sources. Contact Doug Abromeit for sources (208) 622-0088.
Available from:
Friends of the Sun Valley Avalanche Center
PO Box 819
Ketcham, ID 83340
svavctr@sunvalley.net
Scotland
Spectacular footage of skiers getting caught in an avalanche filmed from a
helicopter with Beta SP. Filmed by a Scottish television company. Contact Steve
Blagbrough in Scotland for source
44-479-811-0254
Slice of Life Video Productions
Box 629
Golden CO 80402
303-277-9327
Video of an actual avalanche accident with snowmobiles and the resulting
rescue. They got everyone out ok.
* Standard Films
Standard films produces extreme skiing and snowboarding
films for the general public. They have
a large collection of people getting caught in avalanches.
Contact:
Mike Hatchett
916-546-4808
standardfilms.com
email@standardfilms.com
* Telluride Helitrax
Contact: Mike Friedman
970-728-9660
970-728-6990 home
35mm, 16 mm, super 16 mm footage.
Extensive collection of avalanches in motion shot from numerous angles,
from helicopters and crash box shots (getting run over by an avalanche).
Shot mostly on Red Mountain Pass and around Telluride Colorado during avalanche
control operations.
* Teton Gravity Reserch
Contact Steve or Todd Jones
(307) 734-8192
www.tetongravity.com
Huge collection of avalanche-related video from people getting caught in
avalanches, avalanche rescue, rescue dogs, sluffs, slabs, etc. They have an hour-long "avalanche
roll" for media samples. Price
varies with use.
University of Washington Press
Contact: Permissions
206-543-4050 ph
206-543-3932 fax
10 minute film "Avalanche Dynamics". Collection of various 16 mm film
clips of avalanches in motion filmed mostly in the early 1970's. Ranges from
very small avalanches to very large ones.
Winning the Avalanche Game
Written, directed and shot by Bruce Tremper of the Forest Service Utah
Avalanche Forecast Center (801-524-5304), an avalanche expert who has been
featured in a number of national film documentaries.
”Winning the Avalanche Game” is an hour-long avalanche education video in
published in 1994.
Video contains many spectacular avalanches in motion and people getting caught
in avalanches but most of these come from other sources listed above. Other
footage is public domain which involves people traveling in avalanche terrain,
digging snowpits, etc. Most good avalanche footage comes from other sources and
you must contact them to negotiate.
Sources include primarily RAP Entertainment, Mike Friedman and Warren
Miller.
"Winning the Avalanche Game" available directly from:
Friends of the Utah Avalanche Forecast Center
Mail check to:
Box 521353
Salt Lake City, UT 84152-1353
Contact: Ed Arriola 801-955-8353
$25.00, includes shipping
Also: credit card orders from:
Backcountry Access 303-417-1345
Working Title Productions
A varied collection of 16mm-originated avalanche footage acquired from producing the documentary, "The Greatest Snow on Earth: Utah's Skiing Story." Recent, indepth interviews with Edward and Dolores LaChapelle; ski patrols preparing/tossing hand charges and ski cutting variety of slopes; detailed coverage of avalanche gun operation in Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah; 1960s U.S Forest Service instructional film. Price based on usage.
Contact: Shawn Emery
1221 South 1000 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84105
801-463-0741
semery@xmission.com
* = High quality professional footage