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A snow mobiler triggers a slide. Seconds later, it catches up with him. He is buried and survives. But today, two promising u. S. Skiers, Ronnie Berlack and brice astle, were not so lucky. They died in the austrian alps after a deadly avalanche. The pair were part of a sixperson crew skiing just a short ways away from the sight of the world cup races. The rescue crews were on the scene immediately with multiple helicopters and other rescue crew. They were able to extricate the two skiers but unfortunately, it was too late. My name is brice astle. Im out of sandy utah and i am 19 years old. Reporter astle was a top junior competitor. His skills earned him an invitation to ski with the u. S. Team. He posted this video in the fall to raise the money he needed to follow his dreams. Helping me hopefully get that much closer to reaching if of the world cup circuit and olympic podium. Berlack, only 20 was a New Hampshire native. He bounced back from a knee injury last year to compete around the world. His father telling usa today, his son organized his entire life around ski racing. Even the best skiers are sometimes no match for avalanches carrying tons of snow and debris at 80 miles an hour or faster. Everything happens really fast. And you dont really have much of a chance to avoid the danger once youve triggered it. Reporter the accident has left many in the skiing world in shock. We journeyed deep into the colorado rockies. To find out what its like whoa to be caught and rescued from the rush of a raging avalanche. Theres the hole. 12,000 feet up im about to be buried alive. Are you going to be able to hear me . No. Reporter not at all . Not at all. Reporter okay. All right, here we go. From the moment im locked in a snow coffin going to be dark in here the entrance sealed. The clock is ticking. The further you get towards this rope line, the deeper the snow is. Reporter for the team nightline came here to meet. The men and women bravely taking own one of Mother Natures most powerful Natural Forces for a potentially lifesaving rescue drill. Avalanche season in the United States is just beginning. Last season 35 people were killed. Is that an avalanche . Reporter edwin was almost one of them. Holy [ bleep ] reporter his brother davis was watching and recording this video. Edwin is suddenly swept away. Edwin, only his head visible help reporter but he is lucky and pulled out alive. Dig me out reporter you look at the snow here, its fluffy white, but what happens after an avalanche . It kind of turns into this. Try to hold this thing up. Its pretty heavy. Reporter this is like concrete almost. Exactly like concrete. And, you know, the when the snow starts to avalanche, it starts getting churned up. Heat, pressure and everything bonds together real tight. And it just locks up like concrete. Theres at great avalanche right here. Reporter there are one million acres of avalanche terrain in colorado. Mostly in places roads dont go. Thats avalanche here its at least a couple of days old. Reporter our guide is veteran pilot patrick ma the avalanche im going to show you is at 2 00. I can see where the snow let go. Reporter oh, yeah. When disaster strikes, he and flight for life colorado get the call and dozens of professional and volunteer avalanchers assemble. We can get to a real remote location, like were coming up to here in the tenmile range, in a matter of minutes, where as a hiking team hiking in would take hours. Snow mobile would take maybe an hour. If you can even get one up there. Further away now. Reporter in our drill, 28yearold Amanda Slater a Copper Mountain ski patroller, is one of the first on the scene. Her partner, 5yearold rekko, specially trained to sniff out victims buried underneath the snow. Theyve been a team for four years. Were beginning our search right now. I can see the debris down here. Looks like a ski right over there. Reporter six feet under, i wait trapped. Very claustrophobic. A little unnerving to be in here. Its dark. I cant see very well. And to think that a real avalanche victim would have far less room, would not be able to move around and probably wouldnt be able to breathe really is terrifying. For most of us surviving a recordbreaking winter means dressing warmly in layers protecting those hands and feet and staying hydrated. In avalanche country, extra safety gear is critical. Like these air bags and emergency beacons. You can hear its telling you theres a beacon right now thats 19 meters away. Okay. And we just go towards that signal and make it get smaller and then start probing. Reporter if the area is too big to cover on foot mahaney swoops in to search from the air. If a victim hasnt been found after 15 minutes, the chances for surviving rapidly drop. Ive been down here 15 minutes now. Even if something were to happen to me down here, they wouldnt be able to hear me yell and i cant hear whats going on on the surface. Im hoping the dog is close. Looks like hes got something. Reporter thankfully she is. My hero my hero hello are you hurt at all . Reporter im okay. Its hard to breathe down here. Okay. Im rescued. Time for me to get out of here. Well that, for a drill, was terrifying. For nightline, im Clayton Sandell in the colorado rockies. Up next Bradley Cooper explains why acting in the hangover is no different from serious movies like american sniper. And hes got the oscar buzz to prove it. Out of 42 vehicles. Based on 6 different criteria. Why did a panel of 11 automotive experts. Name the Volkswagen Golf motor trends 2015 car of the year . Well give you four good reasons the allnew Volkswagen Golf starting at 17,995. Theres an Award Winning golf for everyone. Hey amanda sorry to bother you, but i gotta take a sick day. Vo moms dont take sick days, moms take dayquil. Vo the non drowsy coughing, aching, fever, sore throat, stuffy head power through your day medicine. Okay, heres the thing. It takes a lot more than fine acting chops to transform yourself from the American Hustler to the american sniper. For Bradley Cooper it involved massive weight gain rig use accent training and some real life hero worship. Tonight, he opens up to my nightline coanchor byron pitts. Reporter in this heartpump heartpumping, highly patriotic film dont pick it up. Reporter Bradley Cooper drop it. Reporter does more than portray an american war hero are you chief yes, sir. Reporter he humanizes it. You saved my life. You did . Yes, sir. Reporter chris kyle, the most lethal sniper in u. S. Military history. 150 confirmed kills. The enemy feared him. His peers on the battlefield revered him. All these guys . They know your name. They feel invincible with you up there. Theyre not. They are if they think they are. Reporter based on the New York Times best eller erseller american sniper chronicles chris kyles success and repercussions on his psyche and his personal life. Im stateside. Youre home . I guess i just needed a minute. The kids are dying to see you. Its been nine months. Im coming home. Reporter theres early buzz of a third possible oscar nomination. He was previously only nated for American Hustle what is there to confirm . Reporter and Silver Linings playbook. Your poor social skills. You scare people. I tell the truth. Youre mean. Reporter american sniper bears the intimate details Clint Eastwood is known for. Clint was right there for that moment. Reporter next to you . When i was on that gun, he was right there. Sort of talking and thats the way it was shooting the whole movie. Clint was there all the time. Reporter for all the intensity on screen cooper and east the wood shared moments off it. Like the director wondering if his star should actually lift the 400 pounds you see in this scene eight times. He just said do you really have to lift that weight . I said yeah yeah it will be fine. Dont pull anything. Reporter cooper gained 50 pounds for american sniper and trained with a dialect coach to get that texas twang. You said thing with thin. You wouldnt do saturday, sunday, you know its very interesting. Its almost like learning a foreign language. Reporter you stayed in character the whole time . Even, like talking to your girlfriend . Yeah, god bless her. Yes, yes. Reporter coopers girlfriend is 23yearold british model and actress suki waterhouse. Though he is private about it their relationship much like everything in coopers life has been relentlessly chronicled by the paparazzi and his career by the press. Hes the shirtless cover star of w magazines movie issue. These days coopers returned to the theater, starring in the elephant man on broadway. Performing to packed audiences. So, how does one of the most celebrated actors get to work every day . The subway of course. Thats crazy. Is it . I mean it doesnt feel crazy. I always take the subway here. Reporter how is it different being paragraphed by the paparazzi by the iphone . I have a lot of maneuvers. If you sense somebody you know its a constant thing that you do. People are very covert man. They do a lot of this thing. You see it hanging out there. You know . There is also this, reading the thing. You dont you can read it there. Reporter for all his success, theres a down to earth guy next door quality to Bradley Cooper, and he gives full credit to his family. He dotes on his late father charlie cooper. My dad was my man. Reporter what do you think he would have said about this performance . Growing up i remember thinking when i was a kid, the idea of him crying never. I started to see him really sort of dip into the emotion of his life. Reporter his family enabled him to flourish. I never, ever grew up with parents that pushed me to do anything other than something that was going to make me happy. I know thats a rare thing. I was lucky, because i had such a selfgenerated engine in myself that i never needed them to push me. Reporter cooper graduated with honors from georgetown. Studied acting at new yorks the new school. Appearing on its Program Inside the Actors Studio with guest sean penn. My names Bradley Cooper. Im a second year actor. What was it like to revisit a character, eddie, after a tenyear hiatus . Reporter success seemed far from certain. You want to go for a ride . Reporter from a onetime role on sex and the city i have to go home. No way. Reporter to his recurring one on alias, bit parts in movies. But it all changed six years ago. To a night the four of us will never forget. Reporter with the hangover. How does one go from the hangover movies to the very serious, in part dark characters in some ways . Well, i dont see any difference at all. Reporter huh . I dont. Phil to me was a real character that wasnt me. Tracy, its phil. Where the hell are you guys . And Todd Phillips and zach and ed are as good as Christian Bale and jeremy renner. Those guys are serious gangster actors, i mean, they are no joke and you have to bring it hard every time youre with them. So, i see it as the same thing. You want to die . Is that what it is . No. Then just tell me. Why do you do it . I want to understand. Babe i do it for you. I do it to protect you. No you dont. Yes, i do. Im here. Your family is here. Your children have no father. I have to serve my country. You dont know when to quit. Reporter there is very little humor in american sniper. It delves deeply into the high cost of war. The aftermath of battle when the adrenaline rush has passed. Keeper only spoke to chris kyle once by phone. He wanted to tie me up put me in the back of his pickup truck and ride around. I found that as a compliment. Reporter a compliment . Pretty . Thanks. 38, pretty . Reporter but before the movie went into production life took a tragic hollywood turn. Shocking killing of chris kyle. The most lethal sniper in u. S. History was gunned down at a texas shooting range over the weekend. The man arrested a troubled former marine whom kyle was trying to help. Reporter after his death, cooper met with kyles family including his father, wayne. I tried to get to know him. I wanted him to get to know me. I said were going to do right by your son. And i meant it. And i think he saw that. You got eyes on this . Reporter whether he wins any major awards or not, Bradley Cooper has already achieved two major successes. Honor an American Hero and his farthest dream for his son to live a full life. If he was still alive, hed be 74 now. Oh, he would be a mess. I think every time he would see me he would cry. Reporter for nightline, im byron pitts in new york. Nice. American sniper will be in theaters nationwide january 16th. Next sometimes you Say Something silly and nobody hears it. But these game show contestants werent so lucky. Our favorite bloopers, coming up. Curling up in bed with a Favorite Book is nice. But i think women would rather curl up with their favorite man. But heres the thing about half of men over 40 have some degree of erectile dysfunction. Well, viagra helps guys with ed get and keep an erection. And remember, you only take it when you need it. Ask your doctor if your heart is healthy enough for sex. Do not take viagra if you take nitrates for chest pain; it may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. Side effects include headache, flushing, upset stomach and abnormal vision. To avoid longterm injury, seek immediate medical help for an erection lasting more than four hours. 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Reporter they lost out on the phone and, perhaps, a little prize. Australias millionaire hot seat proving too hot for this contestant. Which of these is not a piece of jewelry commonly worn to symbol ize symbolize a relationship im going to go with b. Oh burger ring. Reporter over on the wheel of fortune Million Dollar spot. Achilles . Yeah, thats it. Reporter with the pressure and the stakes so high, anything can happen. For nightline, im sara haines in new york. Oh ah. Thanks for watching abc news. World news now is coming up soon with overnight breaking news. Tune into Good Morning America tomorrow. And as always were online at abcnews. Com. Good night, america. [dramatic music] [cheers and applause] yeah yeah thank you, and welcome to the show. Im terry crews, and you may know me from Brooklyn Ninenine and im also thrilled to be here hosting millionaire. [cheers and applause] every millionaire contestant is unique, but todays first contestant says shes missing something almost every person has. Luckily, it has nothing to do with her brain. From lafayette, louisiana, please welcome ashley hollier. [cheers and applause] hi, ashley. Can i hug you . Good to see you. Oh. Come on in. Now, ashley, what are you missing . A sense of smell. Its called anosmia. It means i have no sense of smell. Cant smell anything. Ive never smelled the really nice stuff, but ive also never smelled the really stinky stuff. Well, you know what i heard . I heard if youre missing one sense, all the other senses are actually increased. Do you feel like that . Well, it kind of diminishes my sense of taste. But maybe its coincidence maybe not. I have, like, freakishly good hearing, so. Lets hope youre smarter than everybody else. I know