 Poster: A snowHead
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Base jumping - skydiving from cliffs, bridges and high buildings - is arguably the greatest of extreme sports, and here's a novel variation.
Our friends at PisteHors report an audacious 380m base jump from the new Vanoise Express cablecar between Les Arcs and La Plagne....except that the cablecar wasn't used...the leap was done illicitly by traversing the cables themselves!
Unfortunately for the guys involved their video evidence was seized by the Gendarmes on landing. Shame!
[One question: I wonder how they got along the cables - like tightrope walkers, or on their backsides?]
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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David Goldsmith, our instructor/guide (Christoph Roc) told us about this episode while we were in La Plagne in January. I think the guys got along the cables by slinging something over them and sliding down hanging from the cables (not sure about this...)
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Jonpim, summer camp had the kids doing that over a ravine last year! They called it the 'cochon pendu' technique (hanging pig). Pretty apt description. Not something I'll be trying myself though.
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Is that a type of pig-bat hybrid?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Must be, Judging from previous base jumpers antics most of them have already reached the stage where they really need confining for mental health reasons, as I said in a different thread last year they were throwing themselves of teh top of the Eiger North Face and seeing how far they could glide before pulling the rip cord 
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David Goldsmith, A French saying, see the world from upside-down, as well as a kid's game while they chant a nonsense rhyme ...
Un petit cochon pendu au plafond.
Tirez-lui la queue, il pondra des oeufs.
Tirez-lui plus fort, il pondra de l'or.
L'or ou l'argent, qu'aimes-tu le mieux ?
L'argent
Va-t-en dedans !
L'or
Va-t-en dehors !
Don't ask me why.
Back to the hanging from the cables, as you pull yourself across, the 'cochon pendu' takes some guts - you have to deberately let go, and hang, suspended by your safety harness only, before swinging back up again and continuing the traverse..
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well at least they were dummy pigs or there would have been bacon on the slopes
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