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Speed-riding down The Eiger

PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 6:41 pm
by Noondueler
This may have been posted before but it definitely deserves another.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLKVx60I5BM

Re: Speed riding down The Eiger

PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:30 pm
by CClaude
Its amazing what people with a whole lot of talent and are bored will come up with.

Re: Speed riding down The Eiger

PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 11:32 pm
by boyblue
Amazing! Watching that made my ears pop.

Re: Speed riding down The Eiger

PostPosted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 1:27 am
by johnm
I recently saw on another site where he did the same thing on Aconcagua back in '08. Apparently it took him 11 days to summit and less than five minutes to descend 9,000 feet down the south face.

http://www.acro-base.com/Aconcagua-Speed-Flying,190.html

Re: Speed-riding down The Eiger

PostPosted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 3:00 am
by Buckaroo
One of the guys in the Eiger vid is Antoine Montant, he was killed last year doing a solo base jump.


here he is grinding a cable in Chamonix



[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yKU03F1f2A[/youtube]

Re: Speed-riding down The Eiger

PostPosted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 3:08 am
by Buckaroo
Then there's this guy climbing UP a cable

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD_FGFi3UKI[/youtube]

Re: Speed-riding down The Eiger

PostPosted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 7:40 am
by Sierra Ledge Rat
Looks like a good way to scratch up a perfectly good pair of skis.