Swatch Freeride World Tour by The North Face: competition stopped for safety reasons

In the end all he got was a big fright, French freerider Julien Lopez who got caught in an avalanche yesterday on the Quellspitze slopes above Fieberbrunn in Austria’s Kitzbühel Alps. Lopez was the second competitor in this second stage of the Swatch Freeride World Tour by The North Face. In the video published below the organizers explain the security measures that are put in place before each competition, but as Lopez says, “this is proof that despite having the best riders in the world, the best safety conditions in the world, something can always happen. So we need to be careful in the mountains."