JJ Wells’s video of the stranger carrying her down the mountain went viral, racking up millions of views
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- JJ Wells lost her snowboard while filming a skier in Brighton Park, Utah, and it started sliding down the mountain
- A stranger, Ami Richter, skied up and literally carried her down the slope, a moment she captured on video
- The video went viral, and the pair have since stayed in touch and started dating
JJ Wells out in Brighton Park in Salt Lake City, Utah, when she briefly stopped to stick her board into the snow so she could film a skier who had asked her to capture a trick.
But the moment she finished filming and turned back around, her board was gone — already sliding away down the mountain.
“I immediately panicked,” Wells, 25, tells PEOPLE exclusively. “Even though it wasn’t busy, I was stressed it was going to hit someone.”…