Pics & Vids Of The Week 24/10/2009

- Snowboarder Xavier Delarue is lucky to survive this massive avalanche:

- I love free solo climbing videos. Here’s a skyscraper climb via Outside Blog:

- From National Geographic Adventure, this little beauty is called the Whoopy. “An inflatable wing—part balloon, part paraglider—used in skiing or snowboarding to extend jumps, ease landings, and pull off absurd leaps over crevasses and ravines.”:

- From Wend Blog, a video on Parahawking. Yes, Parahawking, which is, well, paragliding with a few hawks thrown into the mix:

- Wend Blog posted this trailer for Rio Breaks. “Part documentary, part surf film”, looks killer:

- Here’s a trailer from the Outside Blog. “Coal Country, a documentary about the battle fought over coal mining in Appalachia, exposes the environmental tragedy and social conflicts that have arisen from mining coal”:

- From the Adventure Blog, a helpful video on how to pack a backpack:

- Can’t embed the flash slideshow, but click here for a photo gallery about an Ocean of Plastic….in Bird’s Guts. “Chris Jordan ’s work attempts to place the impact of consumerism in perspective. For his latest project he traveled to the Midway Islands, near the heart of the Pacific Trash Gyre , to photograph the decomposed bodies of chicks that have been fed plastic litter by confused parents. “