If you noticed the photo from my last blog post it looks an unbelievably steep trail from the summit down to a bottomless chasm miles below. I was writing about snowboarding down Mt. Everest and this photo came up in an internet image search with not much of a description, so I thought it might be the route Marco Siffredi took. Thinking more about it I can’t imagine anyone making any form of a controlled descent since it is practically 90 degrees vertical, not to mention the major outcroppings of rock. This is more like urban legend than anything and I must be way off. But then looking at that photo there don’t seem to be any other reasonable choices for where to tip your nose down and fly. I mean really, what can you do besides loosely controlling free fall to the bottom? You couldn’t even get traction on your board to slow down. The only thing keeping your speed in check would be when you reach terminal velocity, where the force of the rushing wind holds you back from accelerating any faster than a few hundred miles an hour.