The irritating Instagram avalanches of the pros

From time to time you stumble across videos of freeriders - in most cases professionals - with the caption/heading "stay safe out there" on social networks - Facebook, Instagram and whatever else is out there. Somehow irritating, as it is somehow logical that freeriders strive for a certain level of basic safety. However, it is precisely this moment of irritation that leads people to click on the video. As a rule, this results in even more irritation.

In the normal case, a guy with a GoPro on his head is riding into a slope that is in no way compatible with the caption "stay safe out there". Not too surprisingly, a snow slab goes off as a result, but the guy is somehow lucky and gets off lightly. I always ask myself, irritated, what this is all about

In many cases, it's not about drawing attention to potential sources of danger and errors, but simply about generating views with sensational shots. However, because "Fuck yeah, I rode another avalanche today" is not so socially acceptable as a caption and also makes it more difficult for "viewers" to press a like, you just write "Stay safe out there" without explaining what the dangers and mistakes were and how such cases could be avoided.

The appropriate image description would often be "Stay lucky out there", but that sounds kind of stupid too... With this in mind, it's probably best to remain skeptical when you stumble across another video like this and ask yourself whether there's anything to be learned from it. If yes, then learn, if no, then don't like it and unfollow the guy, otherwise his "altruism" will drive him to his death.