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A 23 year old used a tracking beacon in a life or death search to save his father. The two were skiing in the Canterbury region on the South Island of New Zealand when they were overtaken by an avalanche. Once the avalanche stopped, Gus Castran freed himself from snow up to his waste and used a tracking beacon to find his father who was trapped deep in the snow. Unfortunately, one other man perished in the avalanche.
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A MELBOURNE man trapped under almost 2m of ice by a New Zealand avalanche was rescued by his desperate son who dug him out with his bare hands.
South Yarra real estate agent John Castran has told family he used his tongue to push snow away from his mouth as he ran out of oxygen.
Mr Castran, 52, an experienced skier said he would have died if his 23-year-old son Gus had not found him, the Herald Sun reports.
