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so what was Pavel's answer to that question? Maybe you already said, so forgive me, but I wasn't sure

Eljay wrote:so what was Pavel's answer to that question? Maybe you already said, so forgive me, but I wasn't sure

Pavels' answer in his mail to me was....

10. Incorrect Patrick Vallençant Sylvain Sauden

I have asked Pavel to post the sources for his questions into this thread.

bandit wrote:

10. The term “extreme skiing” has become a cliché on the modern ski world. However few skiers know that 30 odd years ago two skiers were doing what few skiers can do now. Who were they?

The clues are; Aiguilles Blanches de Peuterey and Gervasutti Coulier

I would have discounted Sylvain Saudan, as for the descents specified, his was over 40 years ago, and outside the time frame of the question.

there were any number of people skiing extreme lines 30 odd years and before so it's an arbitrary, if not bizarre, figure to pick and to suggest there was only a couple of skiers is just wrong. Saudan himself was skiing stuff like that more like 45 or 50 years ago and was known as "Le skieur de l'impossible". Saudan and Anselm Baud were contemporaries and skied together, his son Edouard Baud, a Chamonix guide lost his live in Gervasutti Couloir as a piece of ski trivia.

In so much as any sense could be made of the question, Vallencant, Saudan or Baud would all be good answers I would have thought. As would another dozen or so skiers of the day, all French or Swiss-French though IIRC and part of a group that really put Chamonix on the map as an extreme skiing hotspot and built a reputation it's still got today. This form of ski-extrême differs a bit from what magazines cover now though, the point was to climb the route and then ski it, much of the modern version involves and easier approach often by helicopter and then some large cliff jump which seems dull by comparison.

It all getting too serious.....I'm going to watch the telly :shock: :shock:

I have received by PM clarification of the answer to question 10, which puts Saudan's descent of Gervasutti Couloir at 42 years ago.

The question again.....

10. The term “extreme skiing” has become a cliché on the modern ski world. However few skiers know that 30 odd years ago two skiers were doing what few skiers can do now. Who were they?

The clues are; Aiguilles Blanches de Peuterey and Gervasutti Coulier

My bold.

As ise says, there were a number of outstanding extreme skiers in the European Alps during the late 1970's (ie: 30 odd years ago)

Pavel, has said he will try to be more precise in future.

I won't be doing any more of his quizzes.

Ian Wickham wrote:It all getting too serious.....I'm going to watch the telly :shock: :shock:

Wickers, it gets serious, when someone sets a question, and then when you answer it precisely, tells you, that you got it wrong. Not because the answer you gave was wrong, it just did not indicate the person they had in mind, because the question format was sufficiently imprecise, so as to be misleading :roll:

bandit wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:It all getting too serious.....I'm going to watch the telly :shock: :shock:

Wickers, it gets serious, when someone sets a question, and then when you answer it precisely, tells you, that you got it wrong. Not because the answer you gave was wrong, it just did not indicate the person they had in mind, because the question format was sufficiently imprecise, so as to be misleading :roll:

So he might of got it wrong, ever made a mistake, I suppose not....In my humble opinion it is not life threatening it's just a bit of a giggle, get over it, the fleece possibly wouldn't have fit anyway :wink: :wink: