Who’s the skier? Where the cliff?

[Tips^Up]

[TG]

looks French

[L82thegate]

Patrick Vallancant? Has the right beard.

[PNWbrit]

Has the right beard.

Maybe he's been in jail?

[plugboots]

Vallencant, Verbier.

[rbtree]

Vallencant, Verbier.

Bingo!

[huckbucket]

Meh. Looks kinda flat for Vallencant.

[Tips^Up]

I figured this was the right place to ask! I had never heard of him before.

His motto was: "si tu tombes, tu meurs", translated as "you fall, you die"
He died on March 28, 1989, in a non-skiing related climbing accident as a result of a broken carabiner, while abseiling from the top of La Beaume Rouge, in France.

[powdork]

if you're going to have a motto, it's best to live and die by that motto.

[Gcooker]

Didn't Paul Ruff say "Dying ain't much of a living" --- and then came up short...... and died.

[splat]

Why, yes, Ruff said that.

[sb]

He was doing a Clint Eastwood impression for a ski film but ironically a year later he fulfilled that statement.

It reminds me of the old saying, "Careful what you ask for".

Something that is near the core of my situational awareness.

[Angle Parking]

Broken carabiner...... i hate hearing sh*t like that. Makes me second guess my chosen recreational pursuits. We place a lot of faith in those things. I guess that’s why the notion of redundancy is so key in vmountaineering systems.


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[MyNameIsAugustWest]

He was doing a Clint Eastwood impression for a ski film but ironically a year later he fulfilled that statement.

Something that is near the core of my situational awareness.

The Outlaw Josey Wales talking to a bounty hunter near the end of the film.