What Surviving an Avalanche Can Teach You About Risk

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Wilderness, Sports

4.3 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Over two decades of ambitious adventures, elite skier and climber Zahan Billimoria has had some very close calls in the mountains. That doesn’t make him unique. What does is his passionate belief that we all have a lot to learn about the true meaning of risk. As the founder of Samsara Experience, a training program for outdoor athletes, he’s developed an approach to safety that instills a crucial caveat: danger is inevitable, and it's ultimately up to each individual to decide how much exposure they can handle.

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0:00.0	It's that time again.
0:04.0	For all of us, this is ski time.
0:07.0	A time when you can have total freedom.
0:09.0	And making those turns is something that you can't really explain.
0:13.0	But I'm glad that I could share some of mine with you.
0:16.0	This is the all-time escape to the all-time ski run.
0:24.0	Warren Miller's 75th annual film tour is coming to you.
0:28.0	This year's film is all-time.
0:30.0	And it takes a look back at skiing and snowboarding's icons,
0:34.0	innovators and hot doctors.
0:36.0	And it looks forward to where the sport is going next.
0:39.0	Those are those turns that you remember, you know,
0:42.0	40, 50 years from now,
0:44.0	that you say that or something.
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0:59.0	Don't forget, you can't get a hurt skiing unless you fall.
1:17.0	From outside magazine, this is the outside podcast.
1:29.0	If you haven't been in an out-of-latch,
1:31.0	but you've been in a river,
1:33.0	you can imagine that feeling of just getting overwhelmed
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