The incident was caught on their helmet cameras.
The group was performing tricks at Palisades Tahoe on Tuesday when one of the skiers, Jeremy Pascal, did a flip and landed deep in the snow.
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His head became buried -- making it difficult to breath.
"Stuck in my head. So then I started kind of blew a hole so I could breathe," he said. "But that didn't work either. So then I thought after like 20 seconds, I thought, all right, just chill out. Don't use energy, so don't breathe as much."
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It took two men to dig Pascal out of the snow.
They say the incident serves as a reminder of the dangers of "snow immersion suffocation".. or S-I-S.
This type of accident can happen wherever there is deep snow.