I had just taken some ski shots in Val d’Aran, Spain, when a friend suddenly screamed, “Avalanche!” Instinctually, I shot a sequence of the action, put my camera in my backpack and skied down to see if someone was in the monster slide. Within minutes, we had dug out our good friend Fer Barrios, and thankfully we all lived to ski another day. In the spring of 2011, Jordi Tenas and I skied between the seracs and crevasses near Saas Fee, Switzerland, search-ing for beauty among the glacial ice formations. One of my favorite pictures ever.