Paging anyone who's not Champ

....'cos he's probably seen it.

Ski gliding the Eiger.

If it's a Ginge then that'll teach people to write details in their
posts instead of just URLs.

 

****, that takes some doing.

 

Kinell. Is that the north face he sort of traverses across at one stage?


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Now there's something that should be made an Olympic sport.

 

I wasn't that impressed.

Yes.

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****, that's well impressive.

Mind you youtube proposed this afterwards:

 

Isn't it a clip from that really shite spoof cop show? Reno 911, or
summat.

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Well that's what the third comment says............

Dave

 

Oh yeah. Well and truly ginged by that.

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Wow! That really messes with my vertigo.

 

On watching it this morning SWMBO (she who Mont Blanc 'owns'[1]), who
used to be able to skill pretty well before her knees went immediate
reaction was, "ridiculous." The lad , who can ski competently and is at
silver grade (for his age group) at the climbing wall after just three
weeks response was, "wicked."

[1] As in climbed and therefore 'bagged' it some years ago.
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Bah, humbug

He crosses onto the N. face at 1'01" - the rest is all on the N. face.
The W. side actually looks rather skiable, although it's difficult to
tell the angle from the video. The white bits pretty much join up.

That thing really doesn't fly all that well - is this some new sport,
using a paraglider that is far too small?

 

Hoalee shit.

That bit where he goes off the edge is fucking fucking fucking amazing.

Bet he was shitting himself a bit about odd wind patterns next to the
rockface though. Not much in the way of second chances there.

 

I take it you'll be hoofing it up slopes in future?

 

Superb!

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What,paragliding?

 

Not so much the paragliding as the combo with skiing and falling in a
semi-controlled way. Not turning up dead in small pieces at the end
of the run, really.

Just like art, if I look at something and think: "That's
good/cool/smart", followed by "I wish I could do that but I'm fucked
if I'm going to try/it would turn out gash/I'd die in the attempt" -
then I'm impressed. Simple, I know - but that's me.

 

The " Not much in the way of second chances there" bit was what did it
for me, tbh - that and the scenery - and the skill - and the
bottle/spare cash to do it in the first place ...

 

Eek.

 

It's a challenge and prolly very exhillarating...