A photographer who survived the accident that killed heli-skiing guide Christian Cabanilla on March 3 said his group’s plunge hundreds of feet off a nearly vertical cliff was “like a washing machine.”
Cedric Bernardini of Chamonix, France, gave his account of the day’s events to the Chilkat Valley News this week. Bernardini was a client on the tour with Southeast Alaska Backcountry Adventures (SEABA). A self-described extreme skier since 2003, the 40-year-old freelance photographer has…