PGHM – Spectaculaire sauvetage en Appui Patin Encore un bel exemple de maîtrise et de courage des hommes du PGHM Chamonix Mont-Blanc lors d'un sauvetage le 2 janvier 2019 au Col d’Anterne 👏🎥 Nicolas Derely Posted by MB Live TV on Tuesday, 8 January 2019

Footage has emerged of an unbelievable helicopter rescue that took place in the French Alps on 2 January.

The rescue took place on Col d’Anterne near Chamonix after a skier dislocated his knee and was able to call for an evac from a mobile phone.

The video, posted by Nicolas Derely on Facebook, shows the Chamonix Gendarmerie pilot, Lt Jean-Francois Martin, ‘park’ his chopper up against the slope with the rotors whirling incehs from the mountain.

In a BBC video about the incedent, Martin said that the rescue team chose to perform the manoeuvre, known as a “skate support”, because of the weather conditions during the incident.

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“It gained us some time because the weather conditions in the mountains were extremely changeable,” Martin said. “The level of cloud on the pass would have stopped us intervening just a few minutes later.”

Featured image: Nicolas Derely/Screenshot from video