Skiing the World’s Longest Rail | Jesper Tjäder

Swedish freeskier Jesper Tjäder set his sights on breaking the Guinness World Record for the longest rail slide on skis, which was previously held by legendary freeskier Tom Wallisch. Now after six years and 127 attempts, Tjäder wrote freeskiing history by smashing Wallish’s record after completing a rail measuring 154,49 meters aka 506 feet and 28 inches.

“Being the official Guinness World Record holder feels pretty cool. I have dreamt about it since I was a kid. This rail was a hard challenge, and my guess was that it would take about 525 attempts, but it went way easier than I expected.” says Jesper Tjäder.

Earlier in May, work began in Stendalen in Åre, Sweden, to build and implement the world's longest rail. After the just over 162 meter (531 feet) long metal rail was in place, it took three days and 127 attempts until the new Guinness World Record was a fact, 154.49 meters or 506 feet 10.28 inches, on May 9th at 5:23pm CEST. Tjäder jumped on the rail at a speed of about 77 kilometers per hour (47.85 mph) and landed with the leading ski on the rail eight meters in.
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[RedBullSnow]

Big shoutout to the one and only @steepsteep for coming out to Åre, Sweden. Thank you for walking everybody through this incredible moment of skiing history with your one of a kind passion and love for this sport. It's been a true pleasure having you team up with Jesper!

[steepsteep]

Cannot thank you guys enough for letting me have a slice of this insane project!!
Jesper can’t be stopped😤🔥🐥

[jonascohn]

steepsteep with jesper = new dream team

[billymiskimmin]

7:58 "Don't want to mess up the shot, and I have to be quiet" *proceeds to not be quiet* 🤣 Love it! There's no way I could be quiet either!!

[andrewhollenbach]

"You never know when you're going to need to do a kickflip" Words to live by.

[liamk]

steepsteep finally getting the credit he deserves

[lounisregad]

So glad to see Nick enjoying his time in the most crazy skiing events! This is skiing giving him back what he took him few years back 🙏

[ItsChezry]

"He's saying 525, I'm saying 2. Let's take the average and call it 3 tries."

I love Steepsteep.

[gillesparmentier]

Hearing Steepsteep shouting "Rubber duckie" in the distance at 7:10 is just amazing, love the guy so much

[daniellomov]

Thank you to whoever edited this! You guys allowed steepsteep’s personality to shine, and kept all his great commentary in the video. More of this!

[coolguyfpv]

the fact that steepsteep was straightlining and Jesper was still moving ahead of him on the rail is mind boggling.

[Onyxized]

Love to see Nick (SteepSteep) getting more and more recognition!! Can’t wait to see more of him in the future with commentating….X Games hopefully also

[DeanPattrick]

Superb rail by Jesper, that was unreal, huge respects 🙌🙌🙌 Getting Steep Steep to commentate was a genius move by Redbull 🙌😎

[zpaton]

We need MORE steep steep!! The kid is the future of action sports personality!

[mqtaidmqtaid]

I've been looking forward to seeing Steep in a Red Bull video for so long doing what he does best, cheering and commentating. I hope you count on him for more projects, he is definitely an incredible kid with a great future ahead of him, whatever he decides to do

[john-thorkristjansson]

Saw Jesper then camera pans back to MY BOI NICK. jaw dropped, keep him on! "I have to be quiet on this one.... HO OOH NO WAAY NO WAAAY"

[billyfairbank]

Steepsteep losing his mind on the follow cam adds a lot to the shot. Great decision! What an insane rail.

[Felix-hxkx]

Hope your doing well jesper, thats a lot of pressure to put urself under and to consistently perform at the level you do. Well done. Its nice to see nick getting some more recognition from the skiing community

[Simpaboy]

Love the part when the girl said “it’s a crazy Canadian here”. And it’s just awesome to see Steep steep living the dream! And Jesper is crazy good as always!! More of this!

[DFakDropZ]

My 2 favorite sking people in a video! Couldnt be more happy