In keeping with Mountain Tracks, a mountain guiding firm, slopes between 30° and 40° are “steep,” and slopes above 40° are “very steep.” Properly, preserve all that in thoughts once we say that Kilian Jornet and David Lindgren went excessive steep snowboarding on a slope that angles as much as 60° in some locations. It’s bananas to observe.
The 2 alpinists went steep snowboarding down Breitind’s east face after climbing it. At 3,284 toes, Breidtinden is the best mountain on the island of Senja in Norway. The feat appears inconceivable, and watching it would make your palms sweaty.
“Steep snowboarding is a really, very area of interest self-discipline amongst all snowboarding,” Jornet says in a brand new documentary about his steep-skiing journey down Breitind with Lindgren. “[Steep skiing is] to ski faces that usually you’ll climb. It’s to go to locations that entails not solely ski approach however entails additionally alpinism strategies [. . .] some mountain climbing, [. . .] some mountain climbing. So, mainly it’s [going to] locations the place, yeah, you aren’t speculated to ski there, but it surely’s enjoyable.”
Jornet’s thought of enjoyable isn’t the identical as mine. However, it’s enjoyable to observe how expert he and Lindgren are at excessive steep snowboarding.
Would you steep ski in a spot the place you’re most likely simply “supposed” to be climbing?
