In what was probably the worst 8 minutes of his life (assuming he's never sat through a Dane Cook comedy routine), a skier was caught in an avalanche, completely buried alive, then rescued by his friends who found him by a glove he'd lost just before getting swallowed up.

Apparently he was able to survive by breathing through a device that let him breathe fresh air from the snow pack until he got rescued. (Most people suffocate from the carbon dioxide given off every time we exhale.) About 5 minutes in you can hear the rescuers above him as he tries frantically to call out. Definitely claustrophobia inducing. You can keep your back-country heli-skiing. I'll be in the lodge with a stiff drink and some snow bunnies.

[Thanks to our buddies over at Asylum.com for finding this intense video.]