Skier takes a 1000ft tumble down Alaskan mountain… and survives

But when the snow beneath her skis changed to ice, Ms Collinson quickly lost her balance, flipped onto her back and came hurtling down the mountain at speed.

ALASKA-A video of a skier tumbling more than 1,000 feet is going viral after it was released to promote skiing safety.

After coming to a stop more than 1,000 feet below, she tells the crew filming from a helicopter, “I’m OK”.

She recalled how she caught her ski on some “chunky snow that was icy” and suddenly started to fall.

“I definitely always have a bit of fear before I do stuff”, Collinson said Tuesday on ABC’s Good Morning America.

“I’m okay, I’m okay”, Collinson, a 25-year-old professional skier can be heard saying in the video.

“The fall was absolutely terrifying – without question”.

Angel Collinson was doing a stunt for a winter sports movie, Paradise Waits, when she hit an icy patch, according the film’s producers Teton Gravity Research.

Collinson said she suffered minor injuries to two fingers during her fall.

‘As I was tumbling, I covered my face and protected my head with my arms and kind of just held on until I stopped’.

‘Two jammed fingers and some bruises, but totally unscathed other than that, ‘ she said today.