«Heli-ski" - a fashionable word that came to us from the west and captured the imagination of advanced skiers and snowboarders . It's an exciting ride in the mountains on skis or boards using a helicopter for getting to the place of the next launch. 30-50 miles out-route runs every day, with a vertical drop of each descent over 1000 meters.
This is the beauty of the mountains with a bird's-eye virgin slope, painted only you and your group. This game is "hide and seek" with avalanches, the fear of falling into them and the science of winning. This equipment of knights, ranging from new-fangled skis or boards and ending with helmets and special protection of almost the entire body. It's a girl in a swimsuit (or not), lights up on the point of landing the helicopter, while you're away for a couple of feet and flew off with a snow cornice down twenty meters. Stuck in the snow head down, you expect that the guide will come and get you out of here. And while he goes to you, you remember: what kind of girl that was beautiful breasts!

Adil-Su Yusengi, Ullu-Kam (upper Kuban River) - the main places of skating fans heli-skiing.
Ullu-Kam - the most comfortable and safe place.
the day you can make 10-15 runs and never repeat the route.
Adil-Su - more severe and complex place. There are only a few points, and all - for the extreme.
Yusengi - something

And if the West is a sport units, mainly due to small helicopter models taking on board the 4-5 people, we have - it is a mass phenomenon, with the Mi-8 helicopters with a capacity of up to 20 people. In heli-skiing is not so simple and serene. There is a real threat to your life as a sword of Damocles hanging over you all the time while you are happily chasing the white virgin snow slopes and struggle in her soft lace. The name of this danger - an avalanche. The theory of avalanches and their descriptions occupy many volumes clever books. However, no matter how absurd it sounds, many of the authors of these books themselves were ruthlessly buried under avalanches. But still there are some rules that in practice much easier, and at times - saving lives carefree "teapot" and cool "pros". It is these rules, my brother transfers to clients, conducting formal instruction, but I'm trying to go to translate into English. Rule one. Avalanches are! They can not be! Second Rule. Avalanches can kill for you! Rule three. Five times better return than once not to return. And last, the golden rule. Do not let yourself be killed! For the last rule, we provide customers with a special beacon sends a signal, thereby facilitating the search in an avalanche. If you, God forbid, was covered by an avalanche, it is useless to cry. Physical properties of snow-air boundary of "behaving treacherously": the sound of good passes from air to snow, and then almost completely reflected inside, in the opposite direction. So, lying beneath a layer of snow, you may well hear his potential rescuers on the surface, yelling, trying to tell them his whereabouts - and they you never hear.


avalanche as "pips", sending a sound signal of high frequency and power, reliably associated captive "white silence" with their saviors, and give almost a 100 percent guarantee that it will sooner or later will find ... Useful for once to hear the theory about the "contours of tension" - places where the most likely to occur separation of the avalanche. And, of course, you should see for the so-called depth hoar, digging a trench in the snow depth meter and a half. Deep frost - a sort of alter ego of any avalanche board. This peremorozhenny "recrystallized" loose snow (and sometimes simply emptiness) in the depth of snow cover, which is above seems monolithic and so appealing to ride, but in fact constitutes an avalanche board. The upper layer is breaking in "circuit voltage, and a huge white mass of the weight of tens, hundreds or even thousands of tons of rime, as for a good lubrication begins svoubiystvenny run. For a moment before his avalanche produces a characteristic "intrauterine" sounds coming as if from beneath the earth, as in the old Children's Counting, warning: "Time is not the time! I go to the yard! Who is not hidden - I do not fault! "For many, this sound was the last in this life ...
« All clear? - Asked my brother after the briefing and, pointing at the helicopter, is inviting customers inside: - Let's go! .. »The last phrase is no translation - clear and versatile in all languages