190km XC paragliding flight in the Alps with low save
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 พ.ค. 2019
- My personal farthest cross country flight on my paraglider. Launching from Klein Matterhorn flying along the south side, then crossing into the Verbier valley flying to Martigny, up to Fiesch and back home to Zermatt. I was flying a Ozone Rush 4 with a Kortel Kolibri Harness.
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Wind noise, Vario sound, Cutting-edge sounds are best music for who interested this kind of video.
06:30 Awesome save Joel!
Absolutely, wind & vario sound = Perfect.
Crazy and absolutely great! Congratulation!!! 👍🏻💪👍🏻💪
Amazing, it must have been really scary the damned dam flyover! :)
Awesome stuff! Loved the video and the feeling of being out there with you in the mountains. The save was super sketchy, and I'm guessing that's a lesson learnt, I was seriously shitting myself just watching it... But hey, you made it and worked it back up again. Very inspirational for me!
Wow - that's flying - I'm happy when I get 1500 ft above a hill that I fly in here in Australia - dying to get may arse over there to have a go!!
Love it, that's epic! especially when you know the place. it is my place of origin, not exactly Zermatt but the same valley. Now I am a beginner paraglider and will be definitely back for flying. Can't wait. BTW this black glider is neat...!
*no music*
Ah I see you are a man of culture. Thank you.
Einfach nur geil, Danke fürs Mitnehmen ;-)
Also der ist ja mal richtig krass! Respekt ,das sah knapp aus an der Staumauer
Amazing low pass ! Bien joué
incredible the passage of the dam! It must have been very scary
Joel Fuchs ... you are living my dream.. thank you for the inspiration ..I hope to travel and gain the experience to fly your lines one day in Switzerland .. your videos are awesome, the gps typography views are so great to tell your story....your Flying and low saves are amazing ,and holy incredible on clearing that DAM. are you kidding me!!
Thanks, glad you liked it :D switzerland is open for everyone, come and visit :)
What an amazing flight!
Aaalter, schon bisschen arg knapp 🙈
Bravo Joel, bien joué ! Super beau vol! J’aimerai bien tenter un vol similaire mais au départ de Grimentz !
very nice video :) great job !!
Super long hike to get out of some of the valleys. Lucky over the damm to clear over it. . Great skills milking/ scratching the lift.
Hi Joel, you've now a good lesson in Aosta (Valpelinne) valley: never go South, downwind, downsun, when in the North side you get the most beautifull sunny 3600m thermal all the way long (still if all is covered by snow). The same for WesT/Est when you cross the border. It remember me my low exit from MerdeGlace in 1992, coming from Jorasses, but I hold the right sunny side all the time... ;-P
" I always had a descent place to land insight" yes but perhaps not a decent place to land. Thanks for sharing, lots of tiger country.
Awesome save, how lucky were you!
Danke für das Schlüsselerlebnis das du hier mit uns teilst! :-)
Chapeau bas !
amazing, congrats!
Etwas vom Besten! Gratulation!
Super!!! Danke fürs zeigen
Gratuliere!
Serious flying
Joel, I like your videos, but I have to ask if you are being honest with yourself? The title says "... with low save ...", but in truth it looks like a "very near miss". OK, you write 'sooo f****** sketchy' once you clear the dam, but you chose to fly down a dead-end valley, with a tail wind and entered 2-3m/s sink; yet at *no point* after that in the Doarama view or the video does it look like there was always a "decent landing option". I have been in situations on a great flying day, half way through a big comp task (150km?), when the adrenalin of a great mountain flight - and yours was one - took over my brain and convinced me that just because everything had gone well *so far*, it would carry on that way (the superhuman pilot fallacy). It just isn't so. So while I hate to dampen your enthusiasm, I think you simply "got away with it", which I class as an incident, and it is luck you are still here. Fly far, fly safe and keep having have fun, but don't let adrenalin tell you you are Captain Invincible. With respect.
Hi thanks, well writen. All signs were showing that it should have had some lift there. On the valey crossing I looked at the place from a far for landing options incase there is no lift. There was a span of about 100m where it wasn't landable. About 100m befor that the sink started. At that point I had the option to turn around and definetly have to land in the not so steep snowy part or continue straigt. Where I was at 7:01 in the video it was very well landable, snow covered, so downwind landing wouldn't have been to bad (the 360° gopro makes it look more narrow and steep). The walking trail is right there. I could have packed together and walk out. Aftrer that it got more rocky but still flat enogh to land (I agree it would have been a dangerous landing. Backwind onto rocks isn't fun.) So I thaught I had enogh 'safety' to try and clear the wall. The air feelt smooth and not turbulent or lee sidey. I could have tried to climb higher on the first lift I got after the glide but because it was mostly soaring I could'n get much higher.
It wasn't ideal and I was pushing it being to confident. Luck was defenetly at play and it shouldn't have to be. I'm not very proud of my descision making and if I could do it over it would stick around a little longer at the first thermal and try to get a few 100 meters higher and stay on the east face. And if I could reedit the video I would make more comments about safety aspect, meaby with a TEM aproach. The low save reffered to in the title I meant climbing up after crossing the wall.
I hope others can learn from it. Learning from mistakes is best when they're not your own mistakes.
@@joel.fuchs_ Hi Joel, thanks for the reassuringly honest reply : ) It is always hard to judge the terrain properly from an armchair with all the camera/lens distortion; but you definitely had me on the edge of my seat : o. Thanks for sharing the video though, it will serve as a good reminder to many of us not to just push on, to remember when to hold back a bit, to slow down (the racing mind), get the safe climb etc. A lovely flight though, all the same - keep sending them in : )
@@frazerwilson1843 The initial mistake was planing the route on google earth (summer pictures) and not thinking about how much snow there is. This isn't a good route to take early in the season when there is still lots of snow unless the base is super high. Once I flew into the valey I was commited and had to find a way how to get out of there.
Amazing!!
Wow, talk about scratching and low save, thought you were going to get wet for a while!
Alta, an der Staumauer war echt krass!
Amazing flight and very good video Joel. I hope you do not have to push your like again so much. Safe landings!
well done !!!!! 100 % sport !!!!!
nice save, super sketch
Fuck man you pushed it -that dam screwed me over -very underated video-glad you made it.
Cool triangle.
dam(n)
big balls bro!
Transition over the dam!!! :0
You crazy like Maurer! haha
Hey, great flight, what camera are you using to do these fast-forward plans that are so steady?
It's the gopro fusion with full stabalization, then sped up in editing. The timeleaps clips are like 7-12GB each witch takes a while to reder but makes for a nice video.
@@joel.fuchs_ Cool thanks for the info!
@@joel.fuchs_ how long to stitch all the video? 5.7k? I'm planning to buy a Fusion too. Tnx for sharing ;)
@@devisddf over night😄
Mann das knapp am Damm, kanns sein dass du da ein bischem im Lee der Mauer warst?
Für die knappe aktion aber noch ordentlich durchgezogen hut ab!
Allzeit häpppie Ländings!
Weis nicht 100% warum. Etwa 6km vor der Staumauer hatte es noch gut 20km/h Süd (Bergwind) im Talboden (SAC Hütte mit Schweizerfahne Cabane de Chanrion). Ich war überrascht das zu sehen, aber das hat mir den Arsch gerettet damit ich so weit gleiten konnte wo weniger Schnee lag. Nach der Staumauer immernoch leichter Bergwind und ein paar km nach der Mauer leichter Talwind. Somit irgendwelche komisch Konvergenz? Einfluss des kalten Wassers vom Staudamm könnge möglich sein? Lee von dieser Ecke und des Staudamms, im schon stärkeren als gemeintem Talwind? Schwer zu sagen....
Awesome! Now I have to stop bragging about my saves in a glider, of course the walk would have taken days though!
No, would have been in civilacation by the evening.
Hello, I'm interested in your quick out system. You attatched the quick out on the soft link ? Isn't it too high ? Since I changed from a Delight2 to a Kolibri I'm wondering how to install the quick out in order to keep my Rogallo with me on board with the Kolibri in total control.
thx
With my glider combination its fine. It only ads meaby 4-5cm. You could take the soft shakles off and replace them with normal carabiners but the quickouts wont fit straight on the harness.
Great video, also interesting for a glider pilot ;) But with a glider you definately don´t want to be there that low without any landable options.
hahahh no you don't! You wouldn't get into that situation, you can just glide out the valey at 150km/h😄🤟
Enjoyed that. Ignore the bedside paragliders. Shit happens, and we deal with it.
oh my fucking god
Top ;)
welli Grössi isch din Rush? Und was isch dis Abfluggwicht? Merci schomol!
Joel, dr Chrigel het zwar a dr Newcomer-Challenge scho xeit me sell em Glück e Chance geh, aber glaub so heter das nid gmeint :-o Guet bisch widr heicho, im dopplete Sinn! :-o LG, Raphy
es isch heickel gsi aber ich han immer e Landemöglichkeit links im Hang ka weni gseh hätt das z knapp worde isch... in dem Moment mit 3.5 m/s sinke woni stiege erwartet han isch ei option gsi umchere und in biz weniger steilem Gländ ganz sicher müasse lande wo trotzdem kompliziärt wär worde zum use cho, oder use pushe und im schlimmschte Fall wieter vore müasse Hanglandig mache und im beste Fall chenne wieter flüge.
LG
Are you using a gimbal? Footage is so smooth :)
Were you just hoping for the best wile passing the dam or you had a spot on the side of the mountain where you could have landed?
Yes, on the left side was the walking trail. There was a span of meaby 100m where it wasn't landable but before and after I could have landed if I noticed I was to low. Getting wet was not an option.
How did you create those incredible flight logs (e g., @1:00 or @6:20)?
You can download your flight file from xcontest in a format for google earth, then import to google earth and relive your flight :)
@@joel.fuchs_ This would be a great topic for another video - "Creating flight videos using the XCTrack app & Google Earth"!
@@epretorious did you try it? It's pretty basic...
ich will sowas in Virtual Reality! :D kauf mal so ne 180° 3D VR kamera. kostet 400€ glaub ich, aber dann kann man mit ner VR brille es einfach so erleben als wäre man mitten drin! :D
Das ist eine 360° Kamera. Ich kann es nochmals in VR hochladen....
@@joel.fuchs_ das ist dann kein VR. also kein 3D VR. die haben nämlich 2 objektive. sowas: vuze.camera/
Ich habe eine GoPro Fusion benutzt und mit GoPro Studio ein normales Video daraus gemacht....
This is brilliant. What is the beep though?
I wonder where would you land, if you could not cross the dam??Like, if you were 10 meters too short... You had landing in sight, as you say? Please, enlighten us
Yes, I could have sidehill landed. Not ideal with the backwind but possible. I was flying right above the hiking trail 30m or so befor the damn.
knapper geht`s nimmer - Strafzettel!
richtig krass 9 Stunden Airtime uff....
which decent place had you always in sight? ^^" it's not obvious from the video
I could have slope landed on the left at most points befor the dam. At one point you can see where the walking trail is. Not sure if I could have walked out with that mutch snow or if I needed a heli pickup.
Looks steeper on 360° gopro
@@joel.fuchs_ thanks! fly safe ;)
damn this was pretty intense to watch, how easy would it have been to side hill land if you needed to? and joel fucks for sure
A bit spicey with the backwind but possible. The hiking trail is right there, I fly right above it just befor the wall.
Wer so risikofreudig fliegt wird schnell schlauer, oder bald in den Geschichtsbüchern stehen.
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You spoiled the scary tention by using the text to tell us that you did make it over the dam before we actually saw you make it over
hmm yeah true, you're the first to point it out. The title says low safe, so kinda spoiled from the beginning.
... und ohne Badehose
Heise Numer 😎
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Wenn man in so eine Situation kommt, (Staudamm, keine SICHERE Landemöglichkeit) dann hat man meiner Meinung nach alles falsch gemacht, was man falsch machen kann. Das Gejammer wäre groß gewesen, wenn etwas passiert wäre. Daumen runter. Sicherheit geht vor km.
der hat das schon im Griff
Routenplanung war falsch. Beim planen auf google earth hatte ich nicht dran gedacht, dass noch so viel Schnee liegt. Sobald ich ins Tal reingeflogem bin musste ich schauen, dass ich möglichst raus fliegen kann anstatt zu laufen...
Mann, Du hast Eier :-)