4 septembre 2007
Red Bull Vertical Rush - descente du Mt Elias en Alaska
Tags :
ski
, alaska
, red bull
, ski extreme
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Même s'il me semble que c'est le Mt McKinley qui a le plus gros dénivelé et qui a aussi été skié.
On va pas chipoter pour quelques métres
Et le plus fort, c'est qu'ils ont fait ça avec des fats !!!
Ils sont montés avec du matos bien lourd !
Gros respect
en plus descente bien raide (et donc montée aussi)!
bravo
les conditions de neiges avaient l'air bien dur à skier avec une pente de dingue tout ça sur plus de 5000m de dénivelé
ils sont vraiment fou, mais chapeau!
cet enorme cela fait rever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1- ce n'est pas une première
2 -ils l'ont fait en plusieurs fois
3- avec dépose en hélico et assistance aérienne.
Bref, une belle descente (et ils on tun vrai palmares), mais beaucoup de flan de la part du sponsor.
cf ici http://www.wildsnow.com/?p=893
"The diary is enlightening. On May 20th, after being dropped off by plane at the 10,000′ Haydon Shoulder, they skied to the water, where they were picked up by a plane and flown back to camp. Sounds like high altitude heli skiing to me.
Then, two months later, they were again dropped off at the 10,000′ Haydon Shoulder, where with the assistance of two mountain guides, they climbed to the summit over two days, then skied back to Haydon Saddle where they were picked up and flown back to the Ultima Thule Lodge. Four days, round trip, to “climb” St. Elias.
Descents like this are a travesty"
"I just got an email from a Red Bull rep asking for more info about prior descents. At this time, they do seem concerned. I will be forwarding them a link to both wildsnow.com as well as the reference to the 2001 American Alpine Journal. Will keep you posted."
Reste donc à voir, si, au niveau de l'éthique, ça fait aussi rêver...
Mail de Naglich sur le site de Lou Dawson :
http://www.wildsnow.com/?p=893
Ho Lou,
Sorry for creating a mess in Mt. St. Elias climbing and skiing history. We didn’t plan to claim the first ski descent of Mt. St. Elias. We knew that this group did it in the year 2000 and we knew about Mira Face which has been skied by Mr. Glick too (couldn’t believe he waited for 3 weeks on the face for conditions, that’s hardcore!!!). As we also operated with Paul Claus and also were in contact with him for a couple of years we had heard about all the stories of ski attempts on the mountain!! Sorry that the footage on several webpages is a little confusing as we just planned to claim the first descent from summit to ocean and not the first descent of the mountain in general!!! As we know the mountin a little better now I just can say congratulations to the guys who did the first ski descent of the summit. I would never want to take this accomplishment away from them.
Axel Naglich
RedBull a gonflé le truc.