A vehicle written for the minutes that follow.
NIVIS is a modular alpine evacuation vehicle — built to reach a buried rider faster than a patrol sled, stabilize the patient in place, and ferry them off the mountain without a transfer. Where AERIS buys the first critical minutes, NIVIS spends them well.
The survival curve for a buried alpine fall has a second cliff — the window between being found and being reached by a team equipped to help. Patrol sleds are fast on packed runs. Off-piste, they aren't.
After a burial, survival probability falls sharply after the first six minutes and again at fifteen. Helmets can extend the clock. Reach time is still the variable that matters most — and it depends entirely on the vehicle.
Most patrol-sled missions end at the edge of the groomed run. Beyond that, the vehicle has to float over deep snow, climb what a skier would hike, and do it without waking a secondary slide.
Not a sled towed behind a skier. Not an ambulance waiting at the base. A vehicle that carries the patrol to the victim, and the victim off the mountain — in a single piece of equipment.
Drivetrain tuned for soft alpine, a treatment cabin that doubles as a rescue bay, and a deployable bed that meets the patient at ground level. Scroll through to see each of them in turn.
Surface close-ups of the elements that do double duty as aerodynamics, lighting, and visual identity — the seams where engineering meets sculpture.
Two patrol up front, modular crew + patient bay behind. The interior reads as a treatment room first and a vehicle second — every surface picks up a red accent on the way to the patient.
Lifting a patient from the ground into a high-sill vehicle is the slowest, most painful moment of an alpine rescue. NIVIS eliminates it entirely: the treatment bay's floor detaches and rides a pair of rails down to the snow surface, so the patient is loaded at ground level and rises with the bed already locked.
Top-down view of the moments after NIVIS arrives at the patient. Scroll through the timeline — the clock runs while you do.
Patient
Chair out
Return
Patient secured
The bed is already lowered to ground level on approach. No final maneuvering, no time spent positioning a sled.
Dimensions, powertrain, and the bill of materials behind NIVIS. Designed so every major system — battery, track, canopy, bed — is field-serviceable with one tool set.
The shell is a single form — the finish is where the personality lives. From the signature alpine red to glacier white and midnight navy, each colorway is tuned for a different visibility profile and a different kind of day on the mountain.
