ETNA snowkiting summiters.

A backcountry snowkiting session to Trois Evêchés Peak from the Lautaret Pass, France.

A snowkiting session, not so easy, pretty extreme, toward the summit above the Monteynard Lake. Not so many snowkiting view, sorry, but the interest is real for the snowkiters who know this difficult mountain area.

Hi Since long time ago we were thinking about tow in a freestyler to avoid him hard step in the snow. Thanks about the Serre Chevalier Snowkite master organisation and the urba trash kicker we manage this at the Lautaret pass last week . And because of the long flat befor the jump, the snowkiter was also usefull for giving more speed for david Brun (the freestyler) to reack the jump with speed enough. The harder in that plan was to jump together without landing on each other !!

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