The Ceremony
The ceremony was very nice, we manage to say a few jokes and stories, a few tears but loads of smiles, and Yuan would have to loved it when his sister went around the coffin with the scooter, laughing!!! And all of us were there to say goodbye, even the ones that were across the world... we love you Yuan!!!
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What happend?
Yuan Hong Li went for another of his beloved flights from the top of the Aiguille du Midi on sunday 24th of may around midday. He took off from the ridge above the Frendo spur and flew....
What is speedriding?
Yuan Hong loved his new sport, a mix between skiing and paragliding which is best described as falling down a mountain with grace. Here is a few links to a few videos, for those who don't really know what speedriding is, and it will help you understand the sport he loved so much:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjtkO_BykZE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffEcwk4iynE&feature=channel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajXEicl5slM
Here is a copy of an article from Mike Peake at "telegraph.co.uk":
‘ There are few sports to which you could realistically ask for a gentle introduction. ……but speed riding, which is best described as falling down a mountain with grace, is one adrenalin rush that your grandfather could experience and hope to live to tell the tale.
"Base jumping is so extreme that there are no margins,” says 35-year-old François Bon, one of the paragliders who invented the sport at the end of 2003. “You have to be 100 per cent precise and base jumping is little more than a cascade. Speed riding is something that you can learn, slowly. It’s not something you have to throw yourself off the top of a mountain to try out.”
Designated speed-riding slopes and classes started springing up on the Alps three winters ago and since then hundreds of people have been certified as bona fide speed-riders (or speed fliers, as they are sometimes called) by the French Paragliding Federation. There are between 3,000 and 4,000 speed-riders worldwide and the sport has found friends in America, Japan, Scandinavia and New Zealand, although Bon insists its home is on the slopes of Les Arcs in the French Alps, where it was first conceived.
“When we started many skydivers and paragliders wanted to try it,” he says, “but now it’s mostly skiers. They’re not used to flying or using canopies, but that’s no problem because it’s better to be a good skier than a good flier. The rest you can learn.”
An adventurous speed-rider is looking for height, good snow and an exciting descent and the hardcore elite hire helicopters to drop them in places that would otherwise require a week off work. Kit consists of a pair of skis, helmet, goggles and a specially-designed canopy that is closely related to the traditional paragliding rig.
The idea of following the contours of a mountain while paragliding isn’t new: paragliders have been skimming mountain tops for years, sometimes with tragic results. But once Bon and his friends latched on to the idea of doing it with skis over more fall-friendly snow, they were onto a winner.
“We knew that the chance to fly fast and close to the snow would be very exciting,” says Bon, a paragliding test-pilot and former member of the French national team. “So we started to play with some existing canopies that we modified. By 2005 we were designing products specially...”
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