An Australian skier has told of the terrifying moment he was buried during an avalanche while skiing in the Swiss alps . James Mort , from Sydney , was with his Australian friends Andrew Sebesfi and Daniel O'Sullivan when the incident happened on January 30 . The rescue of Mr Mort was captured on a GoPro camera as well as the moment the avalanche hit at Les Crosets on the Swiss-French border . Scroll down for video . James Mort has told of the terrifying moment he was buried alive in an avalanche while skiing . The Sydney man penned a blog post about his experience , saying he wanted to raise more awareness of the dangers of an avalanche . On his Tumblr , the Australian wrote he had tried to outrun it by skiing over the top of a frozen creek , but was unsuccessful . ' I looked up just in time to watch the avalanche envelope me , ' Mr Mort said . 'The last thing I managed to do before I was completely buried was to reach as high as I could above the snow with my left arm and ski pole . ' It was this decision that saved Mr Mort 's life and helped his friends locate him . Mr Mort was with his two friends , Daniel O'Sullivan ( left ) and Andrew Sebesfi ( right ) , at the time . Mr Mort 's friends started to dig him out from under the metres of snow after the avalanche . He wrote on his blog he found the whole experience terrifying , saying he thought he was going to die . In video of the incident , Mr Sebesfi , Mr O'Sullivan and a third friend , Swiss man Léonard Ottensmeyer , were unaware of his whereabouts until they find a ski pole sticking out of the snow , which Mr Mort starts waving while buried underneath . His friends call out to him and tell him they were going to get him out . One of them starts to dig through the snow with a portable shovel they have attached to their backpack . His friends found him when he was able to wave his ski pole from underneath the snow to alert them to his location . The avalanche that buried him happened on January 30 while he was skiing with three other people , including two Australians . But Mr Mort shares what he was thinking before he was saved . 'As the snow piled higher and higher , it became darker and darker until I was surrounded by an eerie black silence , broken only by the sound of my slow breathing and racing heartbeat , ' he wrote . ' '' Okay '' I thought to myself ; `` You ’ re dead '' . ' I was convinced that they would not find me in time . Unable to move I focused on slowing my breathing , relaxing and conserving oxygen . ' Mr Mort describes the relief he felt when he was finally able to see the sky again . 'Soon my vision became brighter and I heard some muffled voices , then suddenly everything went white as Dan and Leonard excavated my face ... I cried with happiness and relief , ' he wrote . Mr Mort said he wanted to tell his story to raise awareness of how dangerous avalanches could be .
Tumblr was skiing with friends on the Swiss border on January 30 . The Sydney man was buried by an avalanche while trying to outrun it . His friends rescued him by digging him out with shovel and their hands . Mr Mort wrote about his experience on his James Mort and posted a video .