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Telemark Skiing the Marinelli Couloir Spring 2003
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This video documents an early Telemark Skiing descent of the massive Marinelli Couloir on Monte Rosa's East Face - also known as the Macugnaga Face. Around 2000 meters (about 6500 feet) in length, and between 45º and 50º, the Marinelli is the longest couloir in the Alps. • • The top of the Monte Rosa's East Face is the border between Switzerland and Italy, with the descent ending at the small alpine hamlet of Macugnaga. Author Helmut Dumler describes the East Face in his wonderful book, The High Mountains of the Alps, as such: With a height of more than two thousand meters the East Wall of Monte Rosa is the greatest sheer face in the Alps, and a full 10 kilometers wide. • • Dangers abound as well, as Helmut describes, ...yet nothing can disguise the sobering fact that the ice avalanches still thunder down the couloir and that there are only very few places on the wall where one is safe from falling debris. • • Further reading here: http://telemarktips.com/FSgrtwht3.html • • Filmed by: Guido Perrini. • Telemark Skiers: Stephen Hadik, Jim Hayward, and Bob Mazarei. • • Macugnaga was dead quiet when we finally got down. Everything closed at the end of the season. But there was one beautiful, surprisingly unwrinkled old lady that invited us in for a coffee. I'll never forget it. She asked us where we were coming from. When we told her, she looked up the vast face and said, • • ahh, you don't value your life so much, eh? • • The beer tasted so good that night.
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