There’s one premium advantage in advancing huge mountain snowboarding: ski greater mountains.
The drawback turns into how do you get on prime of them within the first place? Ski mountaineering has its logistical and physiological limits, and so do helicopters: wind or terrain with no touchdown zones.
Alternatives? Well, you possibly can reduce the wind threat and stroll time with an ultralight aircraft. That’s what pilot and skier Géraldine Fasnacht does, ever since she acquired her pilot’s license. She stands on the wings of a longtime vanguard: that Hermann Geiger opened the very best touchdown spot in Switzerland, 4,370 meters up the Monte Rosa glacier, in 1921.
Now, Fasnacht and her cohort apply the identical methods to open huge new ski strains.
Watch it go down — and up, and up, and up — in The North Face’s “LINE & AIR.”
Runtime: 38.5 minutes
