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Video: Snow bridge collapsing

This snow bridge is on Mount Andromeda in the Columbia icefields. The climbers are students.

The scary thing is that they crossed this bridge going up. If you were going downhill roped to your partner and traveling together, do you think you would have held this fall. In this case the guides set up an anchor and the climbers jumped the bridge.

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