Did anyone see last week's typically daft Top Gear race against a couple of 
skiers/paragliders? That looked insanely dangerous given how close they were 
flying to the ground/rocks/cliffs/trees!

If anyone missed it, it's repeated on BBC3 at 8:30 tonight. The race starts 
about 20 minutes into the programme.

Paul
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Oh yeah, did anyone else recognise the "great" Welsh road that Jeremy tested 
the Mercedes on?

I recognised it instantly, one of my favourite roads...

Paul
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Paul Saunders wrote:
> Did anyone see last week's typically daft Top Gear race against a couple of 
> skiers/paragliders? That looked insanely dangerous given how close they were 
> flying to the ground/rocks/cliffs/trees!

Yes, I caught that.  We were both impressed with how they were fusing
skiing and flying into one, our own skiing being rather more sedate!

The estate car was crap: no proper roof rails! ;-)

Pete.
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In article , pvs1
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> Did anyone see last week's typically daft Top Gear race against a couple of 
> skiers/paragliders? That looked insanely dangerous given how close they were 
> flying to the ground/rocks/cliffs/trees!
> 
> If anyone missed it, it's repeated on BBC3 at 8:30 tonight. The race starts 
> about 20 minutes into the programme.
> 
> Paul
> 
A quick Google of the skiers involved, Antoine Montant & Francois Bon, 
gives a good idea of what sort of thing they can do.
Antoine Montant is also quite adept at the Infinity Tumble (very mad 
paragliding acro stunt - think 'loop the loop'), and Francois Bon has 
done a similar speedflying stunt down Mont Blanc, dropping 1000m per 
minute!!

AM's 122 infinity tumbles here:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzA489NL6Rg

FB's Mont Blanc trip here ->  http://www.skibd.com/videos.php?id=5 

The Hamster didn't stand a chance!!

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