Daring Slackliner Keeps Balance Despite Being Hit By 40-Ft Wave
“The waves were pretty random and unpredictable at times, which made it a lot more fun than usual.”
Bracing herself up for an adventure, 26-year-old Coralie Girault went slacklining in Cap Méchant, a beautiful but dangerous stretch of coast on the French island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean. Standing across a 31-metre gap between two cliffs, she was almost washed out to sea when a freak 40-foot wave smashed into her – and the brush with death was caught on camera.
In the video, Coralie is shown balancing herself in the middle of the line when a wave crashes into the rock face and engulfs her. Coralie, from Lyon, France, said: "The waves were pretty random and unpredictable at times, which made it a lot more fun than usual.” The island of Réunion is seen by the adrenaline-junky community as an ideal location for slacklining.
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