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there were any number of people skiing extreme lines 30 odd years and before so it's an arbitrary, if not bizarre, figure to pick and to suggest there was only a couple of skiers is just wrong. Saudan himself was skiing stuff like that more like 45 or 50 years ago and was known as "Le skieur de l'impossible". Saudan and Anselm Baud were contemporaries and skied together, his son Edouard Baud, a Chamonix guide lost his live in Gervasutti Couloir as a piece of ski trivia. In so much as any sense could be made of the question, Vallencant, Saudan or Baud would all be good answers I would have thought. As would another dozen or so skiers of the day, all French or Swiss-French though IIRC and part of a group that really put Chamonix on the map as an extreme skiing hotspot and built a reputation it's still got today. This form of ski-extrême differs a bit from what magazines cover now though, the point was to climb the route and then ski it, much of the modern version involves and easier approach often by helicopter and then some large cliff jump which seems dull by comparison. |
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off the tourist route? in the same way as Benidorm is off the tourist route maybe. |
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The maths of that seem too hard right now, meanwhile here's a photograph I was just uploading. 
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sometimes, but I only said most of the time they'd be mostly right and this isn't precise anyway, most skis only come in graduations of 5cm anyway so it's never going to be that precise.
they're pinker :lol: there's a mechanical difference in movement though, a lower centre of gravity and women have a different weight profile as they typically have lower muscle mass. This can map to having the binding further forward which is trivial but probably means that the centre point of the curve, or the thinnest bit of the ski, needs to be more forward as well. That's also related to having smaller foot sizes as well. |
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pretty much, that's pretty true of everyone but the upper and lower limits vary from the stick-like super model to the overweight person, as a subset skiers are self limiting to an extent, you'll not get the very thin or very overweight that means a hire shop dishing skis out based on height will be more or less right most of the time |
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actually it does, it's all related to movement, pendulums and levers. It may not matter much though, within certain constraints there's not so much variation between weight and height for people, those constraints typically being imposed by the fact most skiers are going to be reasonably fit and not be carrying excessive weight just by nature of the physical activity. |
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exactly .... you must live there :D and yet, that's exactly the reason people give for the snow conditions, I suppose they're right but they mean to explain to great conditions rather than the variability of it all. |
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That one always cracks me up as well :lol: Someone said it on TV only at weekend, explaining it away as latitude and location which in this case is a perfectly sensible reason and perfectly inaccurate, there's ski stations here at that height with far more skier days and better cover. If he'd said Cairngorm has a unique position that guarantees extreme wind that would have fair comment though :D Austria has a good snow record because it's colder for any given height than France, that's all there is to it, micro-climates and associated nonsense are just as silly as claiming Austria is too low to have reliable snow. |
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