Am I the only one thinking this story is a crock? I just don’t see how it’s possible to pee your way out of an avalanche. How much snow would you have to melt? And wouldn’t melted snow and pee come back through the window? And as has been observed already, drinking alcohol is likely to make him freeze.
Wow! This guy is my new hero.
I thought it was originally Rick Moranis in Strange Brew when he drank the vat of beer he was trapped in, got out, and put out the Elsinore Brewery fire by peeing on it . . .
Tripler
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There is this, beer is calories and by drinking it, he would not go hungry. Barley sandwiches are better in that situation than trying to drink melt water too,
I don’t know what joazito is talking about. Or at least, I don’t know how they do things in Portugal. But in England they do indeed serve beer…not warm by any means but definately not freezing like it’s often served here. Mostly because they drink less of the piss-water beer we do and actually drink beer they want to taste .
You know, this would make the perfect beer ad…
That is just so… cool. 
I volunteer for any tests on how much a person can drink…I’ve been studying real hard!
I’m still trying to picture exactly how the deed was accomplished.
Did he physically pee on the snow, or did he refill the empties and dump it out the window?
I’m thinking if it’s the former, he be a bendy-twisty man.
There’s 60 bottles of beer in the snow.
There’s 60 bottles of beer.
So take a drink, then go
and make yellow snow.
There’s 59 bottles of beer in the snow.
To further clarify:
“Beer” is a generic term, that includes sub-groups such as ale, bitter, lager, stout, weissbier, etc. Some nationalities refer to a particular sub-group as “beer” - e.g. in the States it usually refers to lager; in the UK some people use the word to refer to just bitters and ales.
In the UK, and by no means the rest of Europe, bitter and ale are served at cellar temperature: i.e. not freezing, but by no means warm. In Ireland, stout used to be served at cellar temperature but is now usually served cold. Lager, however, is served ice-cold pretty much everywhere.
The story has practically a perfect profile for an urban legend and snopes tends to agree.
If you wanted to melt snow using body heat there are 101 more sensible and practical ways of going about it.
I’m thinking he had several beers before the avalanche. He then drank the rest of the 60 beers while trying to dig himself out over the next three days. He then woke up sober on the fourth day. Only to discover that the* passenger side *door had been clear of snow all along.
Le Sigh…
So much for my new hero.
I’ll drink a few in his memory when I get home tonight. 
I hope this isn’t going to start a trend in how they search for avalanche victims.
Snopes has pretty much confirmed this as an urban legend.
Nuts. 
I too thought it was bogus when I first saw it in an email someone sent me.
I think that so many respondents in this thread didn’t question the story says something about the human desire to believe. C’mon people, be skeptical!
Remember, all beer is food but all food is not beer.