Since last May, engineers have been welding a 2.6-ton metal ramp, 23 metres (75 ft) long, which will effectively drape over the top of the glacier, creating a new, higher, starting point by the top station of the Mont-Fort cable car. The ramp's designers estimate that by the time athletes reach the bottom of the ramp – roughly the starting point for previous record attempts – they will be travelling at about 120 kph. Skiing at motorway speeds down a ramp just 2 metres wide with an incline of more than 105 per cent will take a strong nerve – as, indeed, will getting down to the bottom of the glacier alive.
There is also a PopKL that anyone can enter. Details:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/snowandski/gap-year-ski-instructor/8418305/The-40-something-ski-bum-into-a-strange-speed-skiing-underworld.html