A 12-year-old girl fell from a ski lift at the Mammoth Mountain ski area in California, and survived. Another skier caught it all on video.

A skier in China spotted a snow leopard and tried to get close to take a selfie. Unfortunately, the animal attacked.

In case you don’t plan to ski off a cliff with a parachute strapped to your back, you can watch this skier do an epic BASE jump instead.

A skier and her dog accidentally triggered a small avalanche in Andorra, and her helmet-cam video went viral. Watch here.

The last thing one skier expected to happen on his first run of the day was to have to dodge a black bear running right at him. Watch here.

Lenka Lanči happened upon a sun candle, an optical illusion that looks like a column of sparkles. See it here.

For some skiers and snowboarders in Japan, the line for the ski lift was too long, so that they started climbing the mountain instead.

A backcountry skier stumbled across a hidden, waterfall that was nearly frozen over, and then he tumbled down it. Watch here.

A group of snowboarders faced winds whipping them around at 50 mph or more at Mammoth Mountain, a ski resort in California. Watch here.

An owl flew up to a skier, landed by his feet, and dramatically looked up at him. The man believes this was a message from Mother Nature.