New cliffjump record

umm if you think of it skiing off a 300 foot cliff goin 80 mph he must have cleared like over 1000 feet or something. it would be such a bigger impact then just falling. so lucky that hes alive, the snow pack must have been perfect.
 
guarantee this isn't real no one can just "accidentally" go off their line and drop that kind of a cliff, if it even was 325 ft which i believe is made up, and live
 
I hope they're still banning people for doing that.

but anyways, i doubt there will be a video, because it was accidental, and if there was one, it would probably be really shitty quality or angle or something since they weren't planning it. I would hope they got some pictures of him stuck in the snow at the bottom or the tracks going off the top, some kind of proof or something
 
i'm guessing you are trying to rick roll people but i refuse to check for i have yet to be rick rolled.
 
AAahahahaa. gold.

but the story is true, i got told by my scandy mates a couple of days ago and thought it was ridic. then googled it and read it for myself. for anyone that doesnt believe, check out that norweigen site.
 
Here is a rough translation of the article. My english isn't very good, so bare with me:

Fred Syversen with involuntary world record cliff drop

During filming in the Alps, Fred Syversen (42), missed his line and went over at 100m high cliff at high speed. Amazingly, everything went miraculously well.

It was during a filming in the Alps til Thierry Donard and Nuit de la Glisse that the Norwegian freeride veteran Fred Roar Syversen (42) missed his planned line. At a speed said to be over 80 km/h (50 mph) Fred rode straight off a 100m high cliff. According to sources, the other members of the team located Syversen after a while, over 2,5 m into the snow, and supposedly not too late, if the preliminary, unconfirmed rapports are to be believed.

As Fred missed his line by that much, the camera crew wasn't prepared for what was to happen. No one knows for sure if the involuntary air is captured on film, men rumours has it that at least the exit was filmed. The pilot in the helicopter supposedly measured the height of the cliff afterwards, to be 320 feet.

After Syversen was dug out, he is said to have skied to the helicopter himself, and then been flown to the hospital. As of this writing, Fred is at the hospital for observation, but so far the doctors hasn't found anything wrong with him. Eternally young Syversen can be said to have had a large portion of angelic watch (can't think af a better word in english) this easter, and at the same time he may claim to have done the highest cliff jump on skis - without a parachute or any lasting ailments.
 
on a more serious note

whats the record for dropping a cliff than skiing away i.e landing i.e not having a crew dig you out?
 


hehe,

I like to add a few facts, the rest I will leave for the film and the pics. I can’t give you any proof, that’s not for me to decide.

My ski philosophy is that you should always stick your landings, that’s gonna progress our sport! Going this BIG we’ll leave to the BASE jumpers.

This was the warm up run at the beginning of the day during heli filming, and it turned out that I missed the end of my line with not to many meters (difficult routefinding cause of similar terrain features ). I let my skis go pretty much into the falline and picks up speed instantly, and just thereafter realises my fault and that I will go out something, probably huge.

The mind works amangsingly fast under stressed situations; breaking or trying to stop was no longer an option, it simply went to fast. If I had tried that I would’nt write this. So that left one choice; go for it, and do it right!

For a fraction of a second I thought this is it, but manages to get in a slight right turn to avoid the cliffs on my skiers left in the landing area. Then comes the take off at an amazing speed ( it felt like that ), I see snow underneath, and I decied that it’s not over yet.

In flight I tried to keep a position as long as I could, but airpressure finally pushes the skitips up and you end up in the backseat. That’s what I wanted as well, because landing it anything else than horisontally was out of the question!

I had an ABS avalanche back pack, and for those who know, it has a little metal/alumunium bottle ? near the lower back, not good if you land on your back. So I tilted my body slightly to the left before impact and that probably saved my spine.

I did’nt want this to come out, but with mobile phones around……

Nuit de la Glisse Films / Perfect Moment Clothing company, producer Thierry Donard

Photographer : Felix St. Clair Rénard

Measure of the jump 330 feet.

For the skiing watch Free Radicals : Rising and Snowblind and Perfect Moment "The Contact".

And as far as I know; I am not 42 yet, but hope I will be.

Fred Syversen
 
um.. if you're going to "charge" a backcountry line, you should probably know if there is a 320 foot cliff nearby bud
 
and why did u say the burial in snow and speed in metric when u said the cliff in english system?

i dont belive it with many other reasons people have said already
 
Fred came in and posted basically that same post in the TGR forums. I wouldn't be surprised if he decided to do the same here.
 
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