I'd been stopped maybe 2 seconds and the slope started to move. I pivoted to straightline but was swamped-no speed, no chance. The impact was like stepping off a curb in front of a 40 Tonne truck doing 60 mph.
Jamie Pierre is widely regarded as holding the world record highest ski cliff jump at 255 feet set in 2006 in the backcountry of Grand Targhee, Wyoming. Jamie's leap was 100% deliberate but there is another skier who unintentionally sent a larger cliff and his record is somewhat disputed around the ski world.
There are a lot of difficult and iconic ski runs in the world, from Jackson Hole's Corbet's Couloir to the impossibly steep Streif at Kitzbühel. But when combining steep slopes with massive moguls, nothing in Europe can compare to The Swiss Wall at Les Portes du Soleil. Starting from Avoriaz in France and ending in Les Crosets in Switzerland, the Swiss Wall is often considered one of, if not the, most difficult on-piste slopes in Europe.
