The other day Teton Gravity Research put up a video of Casey Brown and Cam McCaul riding down the infamous Corbet’s Couloir, and now they’ve posted a making of video, showing Cam doing the first mountain bike run ever down it, then both of them dropping in… and crashing. The nerves are palpable, the speed breathtaking, and the crashes stomach turning. Both are okay, but if you’re squeamish at the sight of blood be warned:
‘”What in the world am I doing?” Corbet’s Couloir is one of the most legendary and challenging ski runs in the world. This spring, Cam McCaul and Casey Brown attempted the first ever Mountain Bike descent of the double black diamond ski run. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at Cam and Casey’s historical descent of Corbet’s Couloir. From TGR’s 2017 ski film Rogue Elements, presented by REI.’
It’s exactly like when you’re playing around in the woods above that two foot feature that has a little bit of mud on the run in. In a “not” kinda way.Your camera crew definitely need ropes for this kind of thing.If only all crashes were cause for this kind of celebration!
David started mountain biking in the 90’s, by which he means “Ineptly jumping a Saracen Kili Racer off anything available in a nearby industrial estate”. After growing up and living in some extremely flat places, David moved to Yorkshire specifically for the mountain biking. This felt like a horrible mistake at first, because the hills are so steep, but you get used to them pretty quickly.
Previously, David trifled with road and BMX, but mountain bikes always won. He’s most at peace battering down a rough trail, quietly fixing everything that does to a bike, or trying to figure out if that one click of compression damping has made things marginally better or worse. The inept jumping continues to this day.
