This is the moment skiers narrowly avoid disaster after a passing helicopter sheds its load with an enormous gas cylinder then careening down a piste in Italy.
The helicopter can be seen carrying goods under a perfect blue sky as it passes the Aprica ski resort in the province of Sondrio in the north of the country.
The aircraft dropped its load before the gas cylinder hit the ground in a puff of snow and then hurtled down the slope, perilously close to skiers making their way down the…