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Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 1, 2006 - 05:20pm PT
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Holy Crap! and he landed on his head!!
Utah Skier Claims World Record Cliff Jump In WY
JACKSON, Wyo. A Utah skier says he has set a world-record cliff jump at the Grand Targhee Resort in Wyoming, dropping 245 vertical feet off the back of Fred's Mountain.
Jamie Pierre, 32, of Salt Lake City, said Friday he made his record-breaking jump on Wednesday as a way to spread the Christian word. He has previously dropped 180 feet and said he had been calculating this jump and waiting for perfect conditions for years.
``It wasn't some yahoo stunt,'' Pierre said. ``I chose to do it so it would open up doors so I could witness my faith in Christianity.''
Pierre said he had evaluated the jump for at least seven years before determining that his ability and conditions were right. Teton Gravity Research, a company that specializes in filming radical ski feats, measured the distance from the cornice to the landing hole with a range-finder to confirm the world record, he said.
The previous world record was set by Paul Ahern of New Zealand, who jumped 225 feet in 1995, according to an article in Skiing Magazine that mentions Pierre's jumping exploits.
Five photographers and three cinema shooters recorded the event, said Josh Nielsen of Teton Gravity Research.
``It was a really, really heavy and intense experience for all of us,'' Nielsen said.
He said Pierre managed the event and that the others were ``kind of along for the ride.''
Observers were solemn before the jump, Nielsen said, adding that Pierre said a prayer before taking off and clocked four full seconds of air time.
About 100 feet into the jump, Nielsen said Pierre couldn't keep his skis under him and went upside down. He landed headfirst and blew a hole 6 feet deep into the snow.
Nielsen said a photographer rushed in and dug Pierre out of the snow.
``Jamie pretty much walked away with a cut lip,'' he said.
Pierre said he was lucky to be alive.
``I'm lucky I didn't get hurt,'' he said.
Pierre said he landed in the perfect spot.
``I hit the nail on the head,'' he said. ``The fact that I came out unscathed and landed where I planned _ faith played a role in it.''
Pierre said he took grief from his wife and parents for his jump. He was born in Minnesota and moved first to Crested Butte, Colo., and then to Salt Lake City to ski.
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WBraun
climber
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Yikes!, soo cool. Doesn't matter for what reason jumping off that thing to me. I know the feeling about wanting to do stuff like this.
Just looking at the picture and I want to do it too ......
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poop*ghost
Trad climber
Denver, CO
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I knew jesus played football, but who knew that he was a skier too.... good thing he was there.
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Rock!...oopsie.
Trad climber
pitch above you
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Does it count if you don't land it? That's kinda like falling off the last move of a climb and claiming the onsight in my mind. Less a skiing stunt than a SuperDave episode. Now if he landed it, that's a whole nother ballgame. Any idiot can fall off a cliff and land on his head... sheesh.
--->bob
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Matt
Trad climber
places you shouldn't talk about in polite company
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one bearded hippy's grin away from a darwin award, holy crap that guy went HUGE!
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WBraun
climber
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Bob, .... LOL, hahahaha, that's true
But it was a hard jump eh? Maybe you want to try?
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hobo
climber
PDX
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Ya bob, are you any idiot? Lets see it.
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Burns
Trad climber
Arlington, VA
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"He landed headfirst and blew a hole 6 feet deep into the snow."
One way or another that guy was going to end up at the bottom of a hole 6 feet deep.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
This space for rent
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On the Sonny Bono Death Scale™™™™ "Werners Chute" at Mammoth makes that jump look like 'nuthin....
Werner is too modest to say it, but he was a bad-assssssss™™™™ skier. What was that one of legend... LeConte Gulley, lost a ski, plenty of rock, no falls??
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poop*ghost
Trad climber
Denver, CO
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where are the physics guys to tell us how fast he was falling when he... stopped on his head.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
This space for rent
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300ft is something like 75-78 mph in a straight drop with lots of arm flapping. With his trajectory..... ok, I'm in over my head already.... butt-ass™™™ fast though.
(now I'm really off to the crags)
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hobo
climber
PDX
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What would be terminal velocity for a dude w/skis on?
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pFranzen
Boulder climber
Portland, OR
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Starting with the 4 sec. instead of the 245ft. number:
4sec * 9.8m/s/s = 39.2m/s
Which (if my math is correct) works out to 141.12km/hr, or 87.63mi/hr.
That's the lazy way to calculate it; they didn't say how far out from the cliff he landed or what his lateral velocity was, so calculating the parabola and a more accurate vertical velocity isn't as easy. I suppose you could use the 4 seconds AND the height to calculate that though... I'll leave it for someone else. ;)
I'll leave the calculation for how fast he decelerated to someone else. 6ft. of powder on top of a lot more snow would lessen the impact considerably.
[edit] Yeah, yeah. Wind resistance too. :)
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abisharat
climber
CO
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Don't you have to land the jump for it to count as a successful ski jump? He just went headfirst into the ground. Charlie Fowler fell 500 feet down the Diamond into a snow hole ... shouldn't that be the 'record'
not that i care. Jamie is crazy. I wish Jesus was behind me, but, unfortunately, I agree with too many things the devil tells me.
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hobo
climber
PDX
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yo pfranzen! Your significantly off with that. Thinking about wind resistance?
hmmm, and your from pdx. gettin out in the rain at all?
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pFranzen
Boulder climber
Portland, OR
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I'm so glad it stopped raining today. I'm liking February a LOT more than January so far! Too much time down at The Circuit lately-- I need to get climbing outside again.
Now if it would only stop snowing down at Smith...
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hobo
climber
PDX
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Your at the circuit a lot eh? Im there a few times a week as well, but headin to smith friday night.
Would you happen to be Peter? The Peter that...
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WBraun
climber
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stzzo
You don't have da balls, this guy did! You is cheap talk!
Whether stupid or not he took the leap of faith ......
It takes balls .......
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hobo
climber
PDX
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Wurd.
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pFranzen
Boulder climber
Portland, OR
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Heh, well I am Peter, but there is at least one other Peter down there that I know of.
Why, what did Peter do? ;)
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