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Very Cool Doug Coombes video

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If you liked "Steep" have a look at this 15 minute ski mountaineering video

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=8687206
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skimottaret, thanks for that. I'm grateful for my fear of heights, for I know I'll never have to do that to get my kicks! Sad too.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
WOW!!!!

my respect for coombs grows each time i see new footage of what he (and those he skied with) was capable off. guts, technique, adventure... amazing.

rip.
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skimottaret,

Great clip, thanks
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just watched it. sweeeet.
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Has any one got that Doug Coombs thing of him waxing his skis and showing people how to do it?
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http://www.thesnaz.com/2006/02/20/doug-coombs-the-quick-and-painless-ski-tune/

That should work.
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After all it is free Go on u know u want to!
OMG. Shocked Shocked Shocked

I'm sorry. That's not skiing. That's...well...just simply insane...

"Make a mistake and it's a closed casket funeral". Indeed.
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skimottaret, Cool
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gorilla, thanks for that, potentially the coolest thing in the world, who needs all this hotboxing-spyderjoning madeness wink
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i would be rigid with fear just standing on the top of the mountain they were on... I get scared witless on easy traverses and any sort of ridges. how people actually enjoy climbing and skiing that sort of stuff is beyond me but fun to watch...
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Beautiful film and location. The climbing looked lovely; technically easy but all the front pointing is sure hard on the calf muscles. And the abbed descent is where you need to know your ropework... they are surprisingly easy to mess up and have a rope jammed above you as you pull them down.

I can only look at the skiing and wish I had a miniscule ammount of that talent.... right.... must work on jump turns Toofy Grin
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gorilla, My sort of ski tuning Cool
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You know it makes sense.
david@mediacopy, I think that's the kind of thing you can do when K2 will give you as many skis as you can thrash. I love the way he's so casual about it though - weather's always wrong, use both waxes.
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An absolute legend a joy to watch him and a sad loss to the ski world. Dont think I would be brave enough to service my skis like that as I have to pay for my own
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How do they get the hardware down after they've rapelled down? Or do they just leve it there? and also, I know he died a while ago but was never sure how Coombes actually died. Avalanche?
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el nombre,

I suspect they were prepared to leave a little bit up there... like crabs, screws, slings..depends how they secured themselves. You wouldn't want to throw that stuff away, but it isn't that expensive

He died in Le Grave looking for a friend who went over onto rocks..he went down to look and slipped....so they say..
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
el nombre, Full story is here but here is a snipit. Jist is that he was not thinking straight as it was a friend of his in danger and let his concentration lapse.

http://www.powdermag.com/features/news/doug-coombs/

Coombs was one of four skiers, all Americans, descending the Couloir de Polichinelle, a steep chute that winds through cliffs and ends in a 200-foot drop, Smart said. To avoid the last cliff, skiers must traverse to the left at the bottom and exit via another chute, said Smart, who skied the Couloir de Polichinelle on Tuesday and inspected the scene of the accident. VanderHam went first and disappeared from sight. Coombs skied next, saw that VanderHam had fallen over the cliff and yelled to the other two skiers above - Matt Farmer and Christina Bloomquist - to bring a rope.

"Doug skied down to the edge of the cliff and was sidestepping down on some rocks, to try to get a view of Chad, and Matt Farmer saw him slip a little bit," Smart said.

"He was down on rock slab and wasn't able to reset an edge because it was all rock slab below him," Smart said.

Some snow covered the rock where Coombs likely slipped. "He lost his edge when he was peering over the lip, trying to get a view of Chad," Smart said.
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