Experience: I survived being buried in an avalanche

I was at the mercy of the mountain, heading towards a 20-metre drop, about to discover what it felt like to die Growing up in Sweden, I was as comfortable on skis as I was walking on my feet.

As a teenager, I became a professional free skier, a style that features jumps and tricks. In my 20s, I moved into content creation. Now, at 38, I spend the winter months filming extreme ski videos with my photographer wife, Sofia. In March this year, we’d been staying at the base of the Lyngen Alps, northern Norway. Nonstop rain had prevented us from…