Snowkiting

I found this video on YouTube and I really don't why it happened, but I think it's because of the wind.
Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RVuXjf_PJo
At first I thought it was funny but then it turned out to be scary. And what do you think, it is real or fake?

Scary and funny (from the comfort of my armchair) all at the same time. Looks real to me. Nice slope to generate a bit of ridge lift. Was cheering him on to loop the kite though Rocks look a bit hard ...glad he didn't appear to land on one of them.

Scary and funny (from the comfort of my armchair) all at the same time. Looks real to me. Nice slope to generate a bit of ridge lift. Was cheering him on to loop the kite though Rocks look a bit hard ...glad he didn't appear to land on one of them.

definitely bro, great to see that he landed safe because we might have another casualty if he did land on to the rocks.

Jeeeez! that was...well no doubt funny when he takes off, but my o my... that was quite a flight!

Looks real to me... the way it was happening. Must have been scary to not know what happens next... m glad too he didnt land on of the many rocks down below!

UUffff

Wind must have been cranking, the kite did not look that large.

Thinking about it a bit more. Notice how steep the mountain / slope is behind him. The wind has no choice but to follow the lay of the land, and that was up the hill, so instead of say 20 knot horizontal wind (as we are usually accustomed to), close to the slope it becomes a 20 knot up lifting wind --- yikes, no wonder he went vertical.

You will see this affect to a much lesser extent on 13th Beach where the sand dunes rise steeply. Go close to them with your kite and you will feel an increase in lift -- the uplift effect due to the sand dunes.

Regards,
Norman.

Seen it before, it is real.

http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri= ... jrFW_yXCzY

Perhaps of more interest is how to get out from that situation, there's also another bad lift on this video above........ Surprisingly he was barely hurt.

woow.... that was scary too!