Cut us some slack! Adventurers scale over the French Alps as they test out jaw-dropping slackline routes
- Adventurers have taken to the skies of Lans-en-Vercors, near Grenoble, France
- Participants of the Marmotte Highline Project posted videos of them slacklining
- The four-day festival involves 18 highlines and lasts until 7th July
Adrenaline junkies are this week taking to the skies and walking the dizzying heights of the Alps – on slacklines.
Not for the faint-hearted – or anyone who struggles with heights – the four-day festival of rope walking opened today in Lans-en-Vercors.
The small village near Grenoble in the south of France acts as the base for adventurers climbing up into the surrounding panorama of mountains.
A man walks on a slackline during the 7th edition of the European ‘Marmotte Highline Project’ (MHP) festival in Lans-en-Vercors, near Grenoble, eastern France, on July 4, 2019
Lans-en-Vercors near Grenoble in the south of France acts as the base for adventurers climbing up into the surrounding panorama of mountains
The festival, named the Marmotte Highline Project, attracts slackliners from around the world of all ages.
18 different rigs of slackline, a low-tension form of rope which is still walkable, have been set up in the surrounding mountains.
Festivities kicked off this evening in the village square where attendees were given the chance to walk a rope from St Bartholomew Church to the town hall as festival-goers sat beneath.
18 different rigs of slackline, a low-tension form of rope which is still walkable, have been set up in the mountains surrounding Grenoble
Engineer Aurel Pap posted a video from the square as he took on the rope walk, writing: ‘Jesus whispered in my ear ‘get up and walk’. It is done.’
Pablo Signoret, who holds the world record for the longest blindfolded slackline walk (1,387.2 ft) was also spotted walking out from the church.
Pro Slackliner Arthur Pera, 24, shared a video of himself sitting on top of one of the mountains overlooking Grenoble as a plume of fog rose from a valley to one side.
Aurel Pap and slackline world record holder Pablo Signoret were both seen traversing a slackline from the church in the centre of Lans-en-Vercors over crowds of people
Arthur Pera shared a video of himself on top of a mountain near to the city of Grenoble, France where he points out a slackliner and also a huge plume of fog coming up the mountainside
Slacklining is a variation of elevated rope walking, but has one major difference to a tight rope.
The tension of the webbing material slackliners walk on is reduced, making balancing arguably harder.
The activity is performed outdoors, and has become more and more adventurous over time with adventurers graduating from lines held between two trees to ones between two mountains.
The festival continues through to July 7.