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For the text version of this and all our Long Reed took skiing to its limits, by Simon Aikam. The Comba and Devouseray is a rocker. The Comba and Devousaray is a rocky alpine peak that stands nearly 4,200 meters above sea level, near the Swiss Italian border.

Its northwest face rises to the south. near the Swiss Italian border.

Its northwest face rises 670 meters at a gradient of about 50 degrees.

Steep enough that you can stand on the slope and touch the higher ground beside you without bending down.

In May 2016, when Jeremy Heights climbed the Comba for the first time, the northwest face of the mountain looked like a vertical curtain of white, fringed by bands of dark rock.

In several places, smears of grayish ice darkened the snow cover.

Heights's ascent was nothing extraordinary in mountaineering terms. This face was ascended in 1958 by

Egbert Aika and Eric Fannis. But Heights was not climbing the Comba because he cared about going up.

His plan was to ski down it.

Heights, who was 26 at the time, is a professional free rider, a skier who spends his time on

wild mountain slopes far from groomed peasts and resort boundaries.

His speciality lies at the extreme end of free riding, steep skiing, descending ground with a gradient twice that of some

expert terrain in ski resorts. This activity combines two of the world's most perilous sports

Alpine mountaineering and backcountry skiing

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