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Insane New Way To Drop Into Mountaintop Lines

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[leadin]If hopping out of a helicopter to ski super steep terrain over cliffs and hidden crevasses wasn’t quite interesting enough, take a spin with these guys.[/leadin]

Xavier De Le Rue, Ralph Backstrom, and Sam Anthamatten journey to Alaska to attempt a new way to get up and down the fresh snow covered mountains, and it looks oh so sketchy.

Riding with what we hope is an expert pilot, the trio unclip from a motorized paraglider near the peaks of some seriously gnarly lines. Then gravity takes over.

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