HomeBoySki:Fred Syversen DID drop 107 meters, and yes, it was unintentional. Fred Syversen was filming a ski movie Nuit de la Glisse with his crew last year. He was skiing a real dream line on a big mountain, as can be seen in the video.
A couple of times Fred Syversen skis very close to the edge of the mountain with over-a-100-meter drop next to his skis. While he was approaching the grand finale, the big drop in the end of the line, you can hear the filming crew yelling “à gauche, à gauche!“, which is French and means “left, left!“. Unfortunately it was too late.
Fred Syversen dropped the wrong cliff. Unintentionally he skied a line that lead to his 107 meters cliff drop. His speed was estimated to be over 80 km/h when he jumped.
Fred is lucky to be alive. A 107-meter fall is absolutely staggering. It’s incredible that he survived. Fred even landed close to the rocks, and he was buried more than 2.5 meters in the snow.
Fred Syversen said landing felt like an explosion and breathing was difficult. He was buried in the snow, but he didn’t panic. He knew the crew would be digging him in minutes. They found Fred unconscious, but as soon as he woke up, he was able to ski down to helicopter. He was flown to hospital where they found minor damage in his liver. He was ordered to take it easy for the next few weeks.
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rasch187Translation for those of you who don't understand Norwegian (most of you do, but still):
Reporter: This week he (FS) got to see what happened last winter for the first time.
Fred Syversen: It starts out perfectly normally, the helicopter flies around a bit and gives me the go-ahead. Then I just try following the line I had decided upon. (music). As I kept going faster and faster, I noticed I had followed the wrong line. (french crew talking).
Reporter: 107 meters and he survived. But what really happened?
Fred Syversen: For a second there, I was sure this was the end, that I was going to die. But after I became airborne, I noticed that I would land in the snow. Then I was longer afraid and decided I would land that jump.
Another guy: Very few people would be capable of surviving that jump.
Fred Syversen: [at that moment] It was just another incident. Nowadays I occasionally think about it and say 'What are you so upset about, there's no reason to be upset, you're still here, you're alive'.
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