The most efficient skiing in the world is extremely dangerous

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So this is faster than heli skiing, it's faster than snowmobiling, it's a lot faster than walking.
It's the motherfreaking Skyway Mont Blanc. Our buddy Ross said it's the most efficient
skiing in the world if you can make a 4 000 foot lap every gondola. And we have
at least four amazing runs that we should do. The other thing we can see it's like really
freaking windy up there and there's it's like twice as much snow as there is this time of year
and this place is pretty known for avalanches. It's so dangerous one lift operator says he has
seen 21 people die right in front of his eyes. This whole place is south facing so when open
snow calls for sun all day the locals rule of thumb is to stop skiing after 12. Because the
sun heating up the snow and the hanging glaciers makes it extremely dangerous. But we have everything
we got right? Rope, harness to check the snow. Yeah we'll check the snow. I think we shouldn't
check if it's the fastest till after we've seen that it's safe. Yeah. Most of the people who ride
here come from Chamonix over in France and then you take the tunnel under Mont Blanc but today
it's closed so we drove around.
And now there's only us and like five Italians or the most efficient skiing in the world
all to ourselves. Is it broken?
I don't understand anything. About 40 minutes. 40 minutes. Can we fix the card before?
It's like a season pass though. Only when they open. So it's the most efficient skiing in the
world when the lift runs. Hopefully we'll make it on the first bend. We're gonna be the last people
and we were first and we're last. We lost the first. Oh my god. It's such a ---- show.
Potentially the most efficient riding in the world. Okay we're going up. Boom we're going up.
Oh damn. Oh damn. Down here Krister. Down here? I think the top is pretty wind affected
and then it gets good. I'm gonna do like one ski cut see what happens.
Okay thank you. I'll do some jumping on everything. Oh it's deep. It seems pretty good.
Sit back up this bad boy. Okay I'm ready. Five, four, three, two, one. Have fun boys.
Yeah that's super sick. Super sick. Okay let's back to the next bend.
This is not the perks of being a snowboarder. Go go. I gotta go.
What do you do? Do you climb down here? Yeah you climb down here. This ain't America.
You can do whatever you want. With the people in this one the most efficient thing will almost
be the ridge. Yeah we gotta get this. We gotta get the most efficient skiing. There's a few sharks.
Yeah buddy. Boom. Should go.
Frog flip. Oh yeah let's get it. Two laps. Let's go.
Oh yeah baby. Have fun boys.
Okay hang on.
Okay let's go. Yeah let's go. Most efficient skiing in the world. Oh Brad. Full Tommy.
All right. All righty. Under the cables. Under the cables. We're going under the cables.
Oh this looks like a fine fine run. If you're going a bit to the left here I can go a bit to
the right and then we just emerge in here down there. Okay I'm blinking. You're blinking. We're
blinking. Have fun. Oh here it looks hard. Should we wait for Vettel here or do you think we're a bit
exposed? Maybe a bit further down. Yeah.
That's sketchy dude. Yeah that's not no bueno. I guess we got a good
reminder of why we stopped skiing after 12 here.
