Parkour down the most extreme Ski Slope: The Streif

0:00 Take over.

0:02 2.

0:09 20 years of parkour.

0:12 I've done it all.

0:13 I can take some time off instead of dreams.

0:15 Just memes.

0:18 Wait a minute.

0:20 What are these guys up to?

0:22 The Han come.

0:23 Ah, that's the most dangerous ski race in the world at the famous strife.

0:34 Huh?

0:35 I got an idea.

0:38 My own trick.

0:39 Parkour on the strife.

0:41 I do have a particular set [music] of skills and skiing is not one of them.

0:45 But maybe I could work around that.

0:47 Maybe ride on the back of a skier.

0:49 Maybe build a small takeoff to send me into a flip.

0:52 It would be the world's first ski tandem gainer.

0:56 It must feel incredible.

0:57 Like that one time I did park one ice.

1:00 That went amazing.

1:06 Then I started thinking maybe I should just forget about the whole thing.

1:11 But then I met this guy.

1:19 Zabi Mal, a pro- free skier known for taking park skills into the back country.

1:25 With Seb's input and encouragement, things finally clicked and we made a deal.

1:31 If I go to the Schlife and find the right spot for the tandem gainer,

1:34 he'll come and send it with me.

1:36 And so I entered the dangerous world that is the strife.

1:46 I want it all

1:47 right now.

1:48 Thanks for the ride.

1:50 Up to the party.

1:51 Y'all don't want smoke.

1:52 Energize the body.

1:54 Raise up the right now.

1:56 Tell me who you are.

1:57 Get in the car right now.

1:59 I want it all right now.

2:01 Tell me who you are.

2:02 Get in the car right now.

2:04 For the stars.

2:04 I want it all right now.

2:06 Tell me who you are in the car right now.

2:09 [music] I win it all right now.

2:14 There we go.

2:19 Okay, that was fun for a second, but this this is serious.

2:23 This is ice.

2:24 This is steep.

2:26 This is dangerous.

2:27 So, we're now going to work our way down

2:29 and check out some of these legendary areas to find

2:32 the place if there is a place because right now

2:36 this turned from like parkour to survival from here on out.

2:42 All right.

2:43 So now we are right below the start of the strife where skiers already reach

2:47 speeds up to 100 km an hour which is illegal on most highways around the world.

2:51 And then they enter the mausala which [music] includes

2:54 a jump that sends you about 80 m downhill.

2:57 So I'm a little bit intimidated right now.

2:59 I still want to check it out as a potential spot for a tandem ski gainer.

3:03 I'm going to do it from the side.

3:04 Let's go to the viewing platform.

3:11 Looks a bit like a parkour spot if you ask me.

3:16 Are we?

3:17 Well, I heard a lot of talk about things that you can do.

3:21 You think nobody else can do it half as good as you.

3:24 They [music] tell me that you shake that thing.

3:27 Well, I just want to know.

3:32 Are you ready?

3:34 [music] Are you ready?

3:38 Oh, I'm so glad that went well.

3:40 [panting] Mafala, from my experience,

3:44 it's like getting out of a car while you're riding on a highway.

3:49 [snorts] We're going to keep looking at the next spot a little further downhill.

3:53 Stylan, [music] we made it to the dangerous Stylhan,

4:03 which literally translates to steep slope.

4:06 And at the bottom of this 85° grade steep steep [music] steep slope,

4:11 they put a very sharp turn.

4:12 What a great idea.

4:13 And on skis, it's hard enough to make that turn.

4:16 Without skis, there's no way I'm going to make that turn.

4:18 So, I'm going to slam into the bottom.

4:19 As far as I know, nobody was ever brave enough to attempt.

4:22 So, I'm going to be the human guinea pig for today.

4:25 Wonderful.

4:25 Let's see what happens.

4:39 It was such a long slide.

4:41 There was so many [laughter] so many emotions.

4:44 I was like, "This is good." Then I was like,

4:47 "This is scary." I'm like, "No, now it's good again.

4:50 Now I know it's really scary again." And I'm like, "Oh,

4:52 no." And then the the wall at the end came really quick.

4:55 I was like, "I still have some room to like put on the brakes." And I was like,

4:57 "No, I don't." They just slammed into it.

5:00 It was okay though.

5:01 This is tested.

5:03 Does a good job.

5:05 Would I flip into it off of a skier?

5:10 Maybe.

5:11 Let's keep looking.

5:11 Maybe we find something a little better.

5:20 Wow.

5:21 Okay.

5:22 This [music] right here is the houseback hunter.

5:25 If you're a skier, you know this as one

5:27 [music] of the most dangerous jumps in the sport.

5:30 You fly down here at about 3 and 1/2 g.

5:32 Let's have a closer look.

5:37 I mean, this looks pretty great.

5:39 I'm [music] not going to be quite as fast as the skiers.

5:41 So, we're going to modify the setup a little

5:43 bit with a ramp to give me the air time.

5:45 Then, we're going to need Zeie.

5:47 I'm going to call him right now so he can come over here.

5:49 We're going to get some practice runs in later today, and then we will return.

5:53 It's going to happen.

5:56 when I'm here.

5:58 Okay, let's do a flip.

5:59 And we're getting here.

6:01 Sorry.

6:04 Wait.

6:07 It's really hard for me to stay on the ski.

6:09 So, I think we have to find a way to kind of lock into the skis.

6:15 [music] Yeah.

6:27 [music] A

6:30 lot of traffic today.

6:31 A lot of traffic.

6:38 All right.

6:38 Come on.

6:39 That felt good.

6:42 Woo.

6:44 What do you think of this bad boy?

6:45 It's a bit hanging to the left, I feel like, but I'm not sure.

6:49 And it's fully flat.

6:51 It's going downhill.

6:52 Eh, I wonder if it's going to get scary doing it.

6:55 I don't need to wonder.

6:56 It's going to be scary.

6:57 It's going to be scary.

6:58 It's already scary.

7:02 Awesome, man.

7:10 [music] Yeah, I don't really know what happened.

7:20 We will see.

7:20 I'll try another one.

7:32 You turned around.

7:32 You were like, "How was your flip?" I was like, "Uh,

7:36 there was no flip." Don't be so happy when this is done.

7:45 [music] It's kind of tricky.

7:51 Usually with a trick,

7:52 you [music] know exactly what went wrong and you know what to change.

7:55 But with this, it's fail.

7:57 Right now, it's kind of tricky.

7:59 I'm like, was I just scared and that's why I didn't go?

8:02 Was it my technique?

8:03 I think my best theory is that because it's downhill,

8:06 I have to lead more forwards than I'm used

8:07 to and that will give me the push I need.

8:10 But, um, and we're working with very little data here, learning on the job.

8:17 Let's go.

8:39 Come on.

8:42 Fight it.

8:47 [music] All right, but now for real.

9:00 I deserve [music] some time off.

9:02 Just enjoy for once.

9:03 No jumping around.