Watch this pro skier survive a 1,000-vertical-foot crash

Even the best skiers in the world have bad days.

Pro skier Angel Collinson had a vicious wipeout while skiing in the Neacola Range in Alaska last spring. An aerial camera catches Collinson bouncing like rag-doll over 1,000 vertical feet before finally coming to a stop.

Amazingly she managed to walk away without a scratch on her.

"I got really lucky. I jammed like two fingers and lost everything out of my pack."

Afterwards she spoke about the incident.

"The fall was absolutely terrifying - without question. You have no idea what you are going to tumble over and there is basically nothing you can do but hang on," Collinson said. "This was a definitely a learning experience for me. Maybe 99 times out of 100, you can ski through that terrain, but when it does go wrong, it's more high-consequence."

In retrospect, Collinson said had a hunch that she was not "on" that day and should have been cautious, she told Teton Gravity Research.

"I felt like I was pretty well within my abilities," she said about her feeling before the run. "It's hard to know that feeling in your gut of when you're just a little bit nervous and you don't really feel like you're on and I tried to work through that hurdle this time. I think I could have pulled it off in a different circumstance."

Collinson is widely regarded as one of the world's best big mountain skiers. In 2015 she stockpiled multiple awards, including, Best Female Freeride Performance, Best Line, Best Female Performance, and the Women's Powder Poll from Powder Magazine.