Xavier de le Rue’s Full Video Part from TWSnow’s “The Nation”

If there's anything to say about French snowboarder Xavier de le Rue, it's that vertigo and speed seem to be therapy for him. In his video part from Transworld's The Nation, Xavier demonstrates his willingness to drop into seriously steep and seriously exposed lines-even ones that are barely a coating of loose snow on glare ice-on the regular. As you can in this webisode from Deeper when Xavier and Jeremy took on a number of butt-puckering steep faces, the Frenchman is more comfortable in vertical terrain than pretty much anyone should be.