Posts Tagged ‘Cliff Jumping’

Ski Gliding the Eiger in the Swiss Alps – First Person View

For the first ever ski gliding decent of the Eiger mountain in the Swiss Alps, the ski glider used a helmet cam. This first person view of ski gliding provides for some beautiful shots allows you to experience ski gliding as if you were doing it. The ski video is very still and clear too, pretty rare for a helmet cam.

Jackson Hole Backcountry Skiing with a Lateral Flip off a Cliff

A sweet ski video with some original tricks. A guy does a lateral flip off a cliff midway through the video, there are multiple front and back flips, and inversions. It is snowing almost the whole time as is coming in Jackson Hole and the power is so deep you can barely make the skiers out at times. Although this is filmed by amateurs but it is better than many professionally done videos and they ski as well as most professionals.

Jackson Hole is a dream for many extreme skiers and is one of the world’s best and most famous backcountry ski resorts in the world. The backcountry is huge, open to extreme skiers and riders, is full of an obstacles, and has many unique areas. Some of the world’s hardest and most extreme skiing terrain can be found here. It is however located in Wyoming which makes it hard to get to but in turn creates a much more wilderness skiing atmosphere when compared to the resort type ski resorts.

Back Flip Off a 100ft Cliff

Out at the top of some mountains with beautiful, clear blue skis, a skier decides to go jump off a cliff. This is no ordinary jump however as he does a back flip while jump off the 100ft high cliff. He executes it perfectly.

Nissan Xtreme Verbier 09 – Contest day

The finals of the final Freeride World Tour 2009 tour. The scenery in amazing out in Verbier with only mountains in sight. The weather is bluebird skis that was made for skiing.

Watch some of the best extreme skiing experts compete for the crown. Competition is based on style, fall line difficulty, and speed.

Team Thirteen: Deep Powder Skiing at Bridger Bowl: Part 2

Part 2 of the Team Thirteen production from Bridger Bowl Montana. More incredibly deep powder to make us jealous.

From the movie “The Junkshow Diaries”.

TeamThirteen: Deep Powder Skiing at Bridger Bowl: Part 1

Out in Montana, 16 miles north of Bozeman, there is a ski resort which gets loads of powder. In this vide, the guys skiing are so deep in powder that only their heads barely stick out. It won the 2001 Powder Video Magazine Awards.

It’s every skiers wish to catch a powder day like this one.

Ski Crash at US Freeski Nationals

A guy crashes while going off some cliffs a the US Freeski Nationals. This is a championship where expert backcountry skiers compete showing what tricks they can do off natural obstacles such as rocks and cliffs. They championship was held in Snowbird, Utah. There’s some nice terrain out there.

This guy’s fall looks painful, but some nice skiing none the less.

The Coolest Extreme Skiing Dudes

Awesome video of some guys skiing some amazing powder around the treeline. Lots of crazy cliff jumps and beautiful technic. Makes me more anxious for the season to start.

Fred Syversen 107 meters (351 feet) cliff drop world record

Talk about a mix a good luck and bad luck. Fred Syversen was filming for the movie “Nuit de la Glisse” when he mistankangly follows a wrong fall line and skis off a cliff. Although he suffered some minor injuries, he is alive an well as can be seen in the video.

Vail Skiing Cliff Drop Jump – Vail Back Bowls

This guy drops a beutiful 25 foot cliff in the woods drop in the Tea Cup Bowl in Vail, Colorado. Beutiful weather in the Rockies with lots of deep snow in the glades. Unfortunately not so beautiful a landing.