Very impressive. It looks like an accident waiting to happen as he/she is not far off the ground, but he/she lands it with ease.
I have never been comfortable with the idea of hang gliding, parapenting etc. It seems no bother to get them launched and in the air, but what happens after that would worry me.
I'm told that the Para-skier thing needs exceptional wing control to do at all. That Eiger run looks pretty hairy.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Is this person bouncing down the mountain deliberately or are they too lardy to get airborne? I wouldn't want to be hire those skis the following week.
Yes, same here. A bit expensive but worth it to do once. I got quite giddy when he did some tight circles, so I'm glad I wasn't in control! I did it at Tignes (skis on, of course), and we landed on the frozen lake - where did you do it?
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*king hell! Looks well dodgy to me!
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I need chocolate and a lie down after watching that. That's more frightening than a rusty old chairlift I once rode in the Ukraine.
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Are they doing it with a smaller parachute than usual (?), which might explain why they don't get very much off the ground.
As I said on another thread a while ago, Zeb - the guide we use every year - parapented off the highest peak on each continent (including Everest - from 20m below the summit).
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
Looks like the safest way to get a good view of the north face...
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
I remember when I was kid - in late 70s - a ski film where someone had added sort of batwings on his ski poles and made jumps of 10-15 metres from the ground without any bumps on the now really... Looked like fun.
You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
Sharkymark wrote:
Looks like the safest way to get a good view of the north face...
Especially with bits of it falling off now.
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Saw some people ski gliding last season in Les Arcs - It always looked as if they were going to catch the lift cables - frightening stuff
Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead
Seen it done before, but on wide open runs. That looked absolutely nuts, with hardly anywhere to land!
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Charlatanefc, I misread your post initially.
I thought you wrote 'Seen it, done it before '
Respect.
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?
stupid ...springs to mind....hope they have life assurance for there families
It doesn't look like the North Face I'd guess they started up at the top on the North Western side (it's actually possible for people to ski down from there to EigerGletscher if they have a good guide, then they look like they end up on the smaller cliffs that are above the punchbowl, given the winds that can blow arround there it took a lot of nerve to do that stunt
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