Watch | Skier survives 1000-foot plummet down mountainside

A video that has gone viral on the Internet captures the moment an American professional skier, Angel Collinson, tumbled about 1,000 feet down an Alaskan mountain she was performing on.

Collinson was executing a stunt for a ski and snowboard movie, “Paradise Waits”, when she hit an icy patch of snow.

Collinson said that she tried to use her arms to slow her descent. But when that failed she covered her face in order to protect it from icy snowballs on her way.

The skier managed to get away with only two jammed fingers and some bruises.