A trailer has been released for an intense documentary film, titled Buried: The 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche, telling the terrifying true story of an avalanche at the Alpine Meadows ski resort in Lake Tahoe in March 1982. This is one of those tragic events that I haven’t heard about until now and that must’ve been an extremely scary experience.
Buried chronicles the third deadliest avalanche in US history, the miraculous rescue efforts and the traumas that still haunt many of the survivors today. Before the avalanche, the Ski Patrol at Alpine Meadows were known as “the undisputed gods of winter” until this event changed everything.
In the early 1980’s, the Alpine Meadows Ski Patrol were the undisputed gods of winter in the mountain hamlet of Lake Tahoe, California, a sun-drenched wonderland of endless powder and parties. With the mountain closed due to high avalanche danger, an avalanche of unforeseeable magnitude broke free. Millions of pounds of snow hurtled down the side of the mountain demolishing the resort’s base area and burying the parking lot. The wreckage was unimaginable and for the shell-shocked patrol team there was no time to dwell, eight missing victims were buried in the slide – co-workers, friends, family – and every passing second was precious. Over the next five days, through an unrelenting storm and unimaginable tragedy, the rescue team persevered. Innocence was lost, mortality faced, Mother Nature reckoned with, but through it all they never gave up hope for a miracle.
Buried: The 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche is co-directed by filmmakers Jared Drake (Visioneers, Greetings from Home) and producer Steven Siig and Greenwich Entertainment will released the film in select US theaters starting September 23rd, 2022, before it’s on VOD in November.
