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Video: Steep Snowmobile Ride Goes Terribly Wrong

You know it’s never a good sign when a video is titled Snowmobile 0, Mountain 1.

And yet, a French snowmobiler found himself on the wrong end of what was supposed to be a tranquil ride up a mountain. Not much is known about the video’s origin, other than that it was recently uploaded to the French version of, a site that collects videos from outdoor and extreme sports. Fortunately, the rider involved in the crash appears OK, but he did record the entire episode through a high-def helmet cam mounted above his noggin.

As you’ll see, the snowmobile ride appears to be going just swimmingly, until he reaches the top of the mountain. The driver starts to veer a little too far to the right, overcompensates by swinging toward the left shoulder, hits the rocks along the side, and everything goes to hell after that.

Crazy that it appears the worst is behind him after about 45 seconds of tumbling, but then it all starts up again as he tries to reconnect with his snowmobile. You can see several people at the mountaintop filming his ascent, so we can assume that as he began his fall down the mountain, one of the witnesses started sliding down after him, since we see one of his compatriots finally meet up with him (seemingly out of nowhere) at the bottom.

Odd that he barely says a word as he’s free-falling down the mountain at high speed, but really, what is there to say? The entire debacle speaks for itself.