François Bon is one of "Speed Riding" inventors, a mixture among the ski, Base jump and sky-diving. It is necessary to see this video to understand what is that. I’m showing how this gentleman did to go down with skis from the summit of Aconcagua to the base, traveling the south face completes, (2.800 meters of wall), in the surprising time of 4 minutes and 50 seconds.
Actually François Bon is a specialist skier in extreme adventures. His real work is to be pilot of parachute tests, but he was already championing the world’s sky-diving championship. Modifying the parachutes and taking skis in the feet, he could create this new modality.
The wings of a normal parachute is quite wide. This allows to stay in the air and to move for the same. More or less, for each meter that you go down, eight can be moved forward. The wings that is used for Speed Riding is smaller, more or less of each meter that you go down, to advance four in the horizontal, in other words, you are between the sky-diving and the free fall. That allows you to play between the ground and the air, mixing the ski and the flight.
After going down Mont Blanc and the north face of Eiger using this system, François decided what was already time to this sport acquire his majority. The south face of Aconcagua is an unique wall, because it has almost 3.000 meters of width.
After 11 days of approach, acclimatization and ascension, he reached the Aconcagua summit, for the normal route. then later...
Then, it is better you see this video that was recorded with a camera in his helmet. Because we don't know a lot as well as to explain this with words. Amazing....
Actually François Bon is a specialist skier in extreme adventures. His real work is to be pilot of parachute tests, but he was already championing the world’s sky-diving championship. Modifying the parachutes and taking skis in the feet, he could create this new modality.
The wings of a normal parachute is quite wide. This allows to stay in the air and to move for the same. More or less, for each meter that you go down, eight can be moved forward. The wings that is used for Speed Riding is smaller, more or less of each meter that you go down, to advance four in the horizontal, in other words, you are between the sky-diving and the free fall. That allows you to play between the ground and the air, mixing the ski and the flight.
After going down Mont Blanc and the north face of Eiger using this system, François decided what was already time to this sport acquire his majority. The south face of Aconcagua is an unique wall, because it has almost 3.000 meters of width.
After 11 days of approach, acclimatization and ascension, he reached the Aconcagua summit, for the normal route. then later...
Then, it is better you see this video that was recorded with a camera in his helmet. Because we don't know a lot as well as to explain this with words. Amazing....
