Think you can go big???

[eatskisleep]

This guy can:
http://tetongravity.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45093

About 100 feet from the bottom of the 245 foot cliff he spun upside down, no, not on purpose. He landed head first at great speeds.

You are most likely wondering how he is doing!?!

Is he still alive now?

How bad are his injuries?






















He got a bloddy lip... that is all. And for the note, Jamie Pierre is a very religous guy. Anyone know if it is true that he skis with a bible in his pocket too?
Thanks for looking.

 

[eatskisleep]

The article . . .
By Angus M. Thuermer Jr.
Jackson Hole Daily


Salt Lake City skier Jamie Pierre claimed a world-record cliff jump at Grand Targhee Resort on Wednesday, flying 245 vertical feet off the back of Freds Mountain.


Pierre, 32, said in a telephone interview from his home in Salt Lake City on Friday that he made his record-breaking jump as a vehicle to spread the Christian word. A veteran cliff jumper who had dropped 180 feet previously, Pierre said his feat was calculated and his landing spot probed for perfect snow.


“It wasn’t just 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 looked at the cliff for at least seven years before determining his ability and the conditions were right for the jump. He said observers with Teton Gravity Research, a filmmaking company that specializes in radical ski feats, measured the distance from the cornice takeoff to the landing hole with a range finder used for parachute BASE jumping to confirm the world record.


Such jumps are not without peril and a spokeswoman at Grand Targhee was quick to issue a warning against attempting to duplicate or mimic Pierre’s huck.


“This is nothing that an average recreational skier or snowboarder should consider doing,” Susie Barnett-Bushong said Friday. Even for elite and prepared skiers “we would never recommend anybody try this,” she said.


Attempting smaller jumps than Pierre’s has killed one skier in Jackson Hole. In January, 2005 valley skier Brent “Newt” Newton, 39, died after jumping a 50-foot cliff at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort.


Pierre himself said his jump was dangerous.


“I’m lucky I’m still alive,” he said. “I’m lucky I didn’t get hurt.”


The father of a two-month-old daughter, Pierre said he took grief from his relatives.


“My wife was not impressed,” he said. His parents also took him to task, Pierre said.


A Minnetonka, Minn., native who moved first to Crested Butte, Colo., and then Salt Lake City to ski, Pierre said practice, preparation and patience were key.


“I waited and waited and waited,” he said of the time spent anticipating the perfect snow conditions. Asked if he ever had second doubts, he responded quickly “absolutely not.”


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,” he said. The event was managed by Pierre, he said; “We were kind of along for the ride.”


Observers were solemn and quiet before and during the jump, he said, and Pierre said a prayer before taking off. He clocked four full seconds of air time, Nielsen said. Some 100 feet into the jump he said Pierre could not keep his skis under him and went upside down. He landed head first and blew a hole six feet deep in the snow.


Photographer Adam Clark rushed in and dug him free, Nielsen said. “Jamie pretty much walked away with a cut lip,” he said.


Pierre said he doesn’t make enough money as a skier to sustain himself. He works with his father as a custom furniture maker and also on lawn irrigation systems.


He said his landing was in the perfect spot; “I hit the nail on the head,” he said.


“The fact I came out unscathed and landed where I planned - faith played a role in it,” he said.

Quote by DocChronic " maybe there is something to that jesus stuff"
WWJD if he were JP - huck his meat off a 240 ft cliff.

 

[John84]

So, where's this video?

 

[riverc0il]

So, where's this video?

you'll have to pay TGR $15 next fall to see it i would imagine.

 

[eatskisleep]

So, where's this video?

you'll have to pay TGR $15 next fall to see it i would imagine.

:lol: $22.95 + Shipping if you want it in DVD Format.

 

[riverc0il]

at least you can buy in good conscience that your money is not going to pay for this guy's funeral (yet). :lol:

seriously: if you didn't stick the landing you didn't make the jump. any idiot can jump off a cliff and fall into the snow face first.

is any one else sick of watching these movies in which guys go really big but never stick the landing then after barely regaining some sense of balance, they start pumping their hands victoriously? surviving is not sticking the landing. /rant

 

[Marc]

Riv, please, you're ruining all my dreams of hucking cliffs for a living.


All this time I was assuming all I need to do was be able to launch. Landings are so 80's.



Thanks for dampening the dream, party pooper.

 

[RIDEr]

Looking forward to next year's movie in NYC and partying with these guys... they CAN DRINK !!!

Anybody jumping off cliffs this sick deserves respect and a few drinks.

 

[Phildozer]

Jesus may appreciate what he did but Buddha would dope slap him.

"You've got a two month old daughter? *smack* What in the world were you thinking."

 

[ski_resort_observer]

train wreck

I went to the TGR site and saw 5 of this dude's video's. Every jump was a train wreck landing. This guy isn't going to be around long. Has a wife and child at home.

 

[riverc0il]

Has a wife and child at home.

that is what blows me away. everytime he goes out, his relatives must be worried sick. i dunno how a women would tolerate that type of risk taking. now, all of us take calculated risks from time to time. generally, the probability for serious injury or death from most forms of skiing is pretty low. but i gotta think the odds of surviving without serious injury or death a jump that high has to be less than half, even at the best ability level in the world. i don't know how people take risks that high and most especially don't know how they can live with themselves for putting other people through that type of misery.

every time i go out, i tell my significant other that i am skiing for two people, not just myself.

 

[skibum1321]

Re: train wreck

I went to the TGR site and saw 5 of this dude's video's. Every jump was a train wreck landing. This guy isn't going to be around long. Has a wife and child at home.

Jamie Pierre has been around for a while. His gig is going huge - not necessarily sticking it. They thought he'd die a while ago since most other guys that just do huge cliffs do, but he's managed to pull it out so far.

Teton Gravity Research, a filmmaking company that specializes in radical ski feats

Gotta love the way the media is still stuck in the 80s. Totally rad.

 

[Greg]

every time i go out, i tell my significant other that i am skiing for two people, not just myself.

That's noble, Steve. I'm now skiing for four...

 

[smootharc]

Two words....

Paul Rupp.

Died in Tahoe Backcountry c.1988 trying to set "World Record" cliff jump (I recall about 150' or 175' or so). While being filmed he approached, made a small adjustment turn (that later people questioned why as it slowed him down), hit the lip......dropped.....and landed a few feet short of powder...on his back onto the rocks below. Died in the hands of friends minutes later. Complete horror story to his friends who watched.

Footage was never made public....and a S&*%t storm of controversy ensued in ski mags that winter. Stunt vs. risk, risk vs. reward, fame and doing things while being filmed vs. that you might not if not being filmed......etc.

Sounds like Mr. Pierre might yet end up meeting his god. I hope not, but that's his right....right ?

 

[JimG.]

A Jehovah's Witness who hucks 245' cliffs...he must really believe in God! He's lucky he landed on his head because it must be very hard and maybe completely empty.

I'm not saying go and try it, but guys like this are what make skiing such an exciting and interesting sport. What other activity do you know where folks willingly fling themselves off of tall objects without a parachute?

CRAZY bastard!!

 

[Marc]

every time i go out, i tell my significant other that i am skiing for two people, not just myself.

So ah, Riv...







When are you due?

 

[madman]

WWJD if he were JP - huck his meat off a 240 ft cliff. JESUS would have stuck the landing!!!! Of course Jesus is more into water skiing than down hill. Sometimes ignorance can take you a lot farther than inteligence just ask the Grizzly Man!!

 

[DEVO]

Reminds me somewhat of Dan Osman. If any of you have not read "Death of the Phantom Lord", you should. Great read, especially if you do any kind of risky activities (ie: climbing, skiing, skydiving, marriage , etc, etc).

 

[kingslug]

Anybody see the comic strip Non Sequitor last week. Shows a new grave with a coffin in it with 2 skis sticking out, 1 tip broken. Headstone says" RIP, lived fast, died stupid. That about sums it up for me.

 

[salida]

check it fools http://www.stevebaron.com/_pierre.wmv