{"id":5423,"date":"2024-04-05T18:35:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T16:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/werocksport.com\/?p=5423"},"modified":"2024-04-05T18:35:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T16:35:50","slug":"oscar-mandin-le-bec-des-rosses-cest-une-sensation-de-vide-tellement-cest-raide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/werocksport.com\/en\/oscar-mandin-le-bec-des-rosses-cest-une-sensation-de-vide-tellement-cest-raide\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Mandin: \"The Bec des Rosses is such a steep, empty feeling\"."},"content":{"rendered":"

Oscar Mandin, who finished fourth at the Xtreme de Verbier, the world's leading freeride competition held on the famous Bec des Rosses face, talks to We Rock Sport about this season finale and his life as a pro rider on the Freeride World Tour.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the first time in six years, theXtreme of Verbier <\/a>was launched this season from the summit of Bec des Rosses. This face, which rises to an altitude of 3,223 meters in the Swiss Alps, is a myth for freeride skiers and snowboarders. It's a 600-meter-high monster on which even the best of the best experience that feeling of vertigo when they're at the top, ready to hurtle down these slopes that reach 50 degrees of inclination on the steepest sections. Among this year's riders, France's Oscar Mandin<\/a>\u00a0produced one of the finest runs of this year's event, held on March 22. The 26-year-old started first in this Freeride World Tour final and managed to land two backflips after a perfectly negotiated first part of the run on the steepest part of the face. The Morzine-Avoriaz rider talks about his first time on the Bec des Rosses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oscar, is this mountain as impressive to ride as its legend suggests?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Bec des Rosses is really something. Two days before the competition, all the skiers and snowboarders were heliported to the summit. Of the 11 skiers competing in this final, none had ever competed from the summit. The organizers wanted to make sure there was enough time to get the best possible scouting on this face. At the top, the first sensation is of emptiness, because it's so steep. Clearly, it's scary. On other faces, it's more your line and tricks that create the risk. Here, there's no room for error, and the gradient is insane. The aim is above all to avoid a fall that you wouldn't be able to stop with your inertia, because it's so steep.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A publication shared by Antoine Strohl (@antoine_strohl)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n