Chapter 606 - 279: That Leap (Part 4)

And in the next moment, a scene that would go down in skiing history unfolded.

Li Younan’s snowboard took advantage of the U-shaped snow wall, using its momentum from the downward slope, the snowboard lifted high, and his whole body flipped and spun in the air.

Then Li Younan curled his body in the air, performing multiple flips, and astonishingly leaped over the dozens of meters high black rocky cliff.

This moment was perfectly captured by the drone in the sky. It happened so briefly, only lasting a few seconds, and the live broadcast room fell into an eerie silence without any comments.

The first comment came from someone who had just entered the live broadcast room: "Just came in, what’s happening?"

Subsequently, Li Younan landed again, adjusted his posture in the air, and his snowboard scraped the snow slope without bouncing, seamlessly blending his center of gravity with the slope’s descent once more.

In the next moment, comments surged like a tide, and various comments began to roll again in the live broadcast room.

"Holy sh*t, amazing!"

"Oh my god, this is real extreme sports!"

"???????????"

The host sighed with relief, and the two experts beside him exchanged glances, seeing incredulity and admiration in each other’s eyes.

At that moment, Li Younan’s voice suddenly came through the screen: "Host, what did you just say? It was a bit too noisy, I didn’t catch that."

Hearing Li Younan’s relaxed tone, the host, usually eloquent, momentarily found his brain in a freeze.

Huh? What’s with this tone?

"Sorry, I shouldn’t have interrupted you, keep it up, Younan," the host said with a bit of a stutter.

The small obstacle Li Younan flew over just now was naturally something he had planned for long ago.

To be honest, before skiing down, he considered several ways to pass through. Initially, he decided to do it through a series of jumps down several snow slopes in the middle of the cliff.

But when he actually got there, he felt it was too cumbersome and thought it better to just fly down directly.

So, in a fraction of a second, he spotted a spot that could serve as a ramp and dashed toward it without hesitation... Everything went smoothly, without the slightest mishap.

The rapid descent continued, and Li Younan used his superb skiing skills to avoid one obstacle after another.

At this moment, the audience was thoroughly entertained, and the Red Bull official felt the investment was worthwhile.

Meanwhile, experts with mountaineering experience fell into deep silence, pondering whether it was indeed possible for a human to descend quickly from over 8800 meters above sea level at such speed?

Of course, descending thousands of meters at high speed isn’t impossible; for instance, skydivers do it. However, skydivers jump from altitudes of a few thousand meters down to a few hundred meters. Would a skydiver manage to jump from over 8000 meters high?

After watching Li Younan’s rapid descent, even without reaching the end, viewers had already gained a fresh understanding of human limits.

Human limits are continually redefined through the challenges faced by these extreme athletes.

Without Bolt, we wouldn’t know a hundred meters could be done in 9.58 seconds; without Paul Anderson, we wouldn’t know the limit of weightlifting is 2840 kilograms. Similarly, without Li Younan, no one would know a human could descend from over 8800 meters at such speed.

Over 20 minutes have passed, and Li Younan has skied through most of the route. Now, he is at an altitude of about 6000 meters.

However, just then, Li Younan suddenly heard a rumbling sound from behind.

Through the drone’s panoramic capture, the live broadcast audience was also on edge once again.

They all saw a horrifying scene.

The entire section of the mountain wall behind Li Younan, covered in snow... was moving!

"Oh my god, an avalanche!"

"Holy sh*t, the avalanche is coming!"

The comments in the live broadcast room started rolling again.

The rumbling behind wasn’t the sound of the wind and snow, it was the trembling of the snow layers ripping apart.

Li Younan caught sight of the snow slope deforming, the white crest rolling down from behind, faster than he could ski in edge-changing style.

Taking a deep breath, only then did a hint of apprehension creep into his heart.

But he remained unfazed.

He thrust his center of gravity forward abruptly, sinking his hips, bending his knees lower, almost pressed onto the snowboard, the snowboard’s angle instantly straightened, ceasing all lateral turns, and rushed directly down following the snow groove.

Li Younan fixed his gaze on the snow surface ahead, quickly dodging the sharp rocks and shadows of ice crevasses that emerged.

The snow mist from the avalanche quickly caught up, first creeping past his ankles.

The live broadcast audience was dumbstruck again, for in their perspective, the next moment, the white snow mist engulfed Li Younan in an instant.

Whether in the third-person panoramic camera view, the first-person action camera view, or the comprehensive view from the drone, it was all a blur of white.

"What’s happening?"

"Is it over?"

"Oh my god, it looked terrifying, I can’t watch this."

"Li Younan, don’t scare us!"

The next moment, just like in those classic movie scenes, the orange figure burst out from the snow mist.

When the white had completely dispersed, Li Younan had already reached the gentle slope of the Rongbuk Glacier, his snowboard carving two shallow trails in the soft snow, eventually coming to a slow stop.

Looking back, the snow mist of the avalanche rolled in the snow gully behind him, like a white wall.

Li Younan smiled and waved at the drone in the sky.

Successfully arrived!