Final Preparations on the Bec des Rosses I On Tour Episode 9

  • 6 months ago
#OnTour in Verbier
Follow our mountain guides and operational team as they make the final preparations ahead of tomorrow’s YETI Xtreme Verbier.
Through challenging conditions, the team paved the way for the riders who will have to hike up the Bec des Rosses to make it to the start gate. Live broadcast will start at 9:45 AM CET.

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Transcript
00:00 [heavy breathing]
00:02 Now we have to go back up there and check on the starting gates, prepare everything
00:18 so it's not really a good weather for it but that's how it is
00:25 Oh yeah yesterday we spent nearly two hours doing the boot pack and with the wind and the new snow
00:30 overnight everything has to be done again but that way the riders will have a safe
00:36 and good boot pack to climb up the Bec to Mort
00:39 So here's the most difficult part of the climb, we put a fixed rope
00:50 because it's a lot of snow, I have bolts but under the snow so we have to do special things
01:00 [wind]
01:29 So on top of the Bec, on the storm, it's very important to stay in contact with the snow
01:36 conditions, the wind conditions, like that we will know what we have to do to make this face
01:42 as safe as possible tomorrow. Woo! Good weather!
01:46 Yesterday we were getting sunburned and today we were getting lost on the way down from the
01:58 Bec de Rosse. It's completely flat light but tomorrow will be sunny and will be a great
02:06 camp so it was worth going for a walk today.
02:10 Woo!

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