Goldi's Big Leap
Austria’s former ski-jumping legend, Andreas Goldberger, recently completed the world’s highest ski jump at an altitude of 2506 metres.
The two-time Olympic ski-jumping medal winner, and three-time World Cup winner, successfully completed the leap of his life on Austria’s highest mountain, by soaring long and high over the 30-metre wide road canyon that connects the northern Austrian state of Salzburg with the southern state of Carinthia, known as the ‘Glockner Jump’.
Goldi, as he’s popularly known, sped down a 100-metre long makeshift ramp, flew
13.5 metres into the alpine air and pulled off a picture-perfect telemark landing 58 metres clear from where he took off.
Snowboard star Stefan Gimpl, a fellow Austrian, and 22-year-old French freeskier Romain Grojean also took on the jump.