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Maybe you should target a steep avalanche terrain with fresh snow. Not only you have a hell of a ride while falling down, you get to enjoy a ride in a snowy feather all the way down the valley! Don't forget to mount your GoPro while boarding!



>Don't forget to mount your GoPro while boarding!

Man, I wonder if we're going to end up seeing someone's free fall smartphone video someday. Not everyone is going to read this article and be prepared to survive like we now are, so what if they decide to use those couple of minutes falling to try to record a message to their loved ones? The audio would be blown out but I don't see why the camera wouldn't continue working. That would be quite disturbing to watch.


Potentially NSFW / terrifying videos:

Multiple gopros record an in-air collision of skydiving planes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p6hqMnsLFY&list=FLR2K9vyQEB...

Tangled chute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciIjdvNo65s

I can't find it but I've seen two more videos of people who have survived near freefall after parachuting accidents. One became a paraplegic IIRC.


> Man, I wonder if we're going to end up seeing someone's free fall smartphone video someday.

Undoubtedly, since it has with other kinds of video cameras: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFSp-SRGhNs

"I'm dead. Bye." (He was not, amazingly.)


that would speak to the debris you possibly grabbed on the way down. Use that piece of fusilage, seat or luggage as a sled and work those bank turns


I've just got an idea for a new smartphone game! :D


Except then you're stuck in freezing temperature, with what is probably totally inappropriate mountaineering gear and odds are you've got an avalanche to dig yourself out of.


Aim for the bunny hill instead?




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