That dude went straight down full impact on straight legs.. the results not great. What would be the best way? Curl, to land on your ass? I can't imagine you'd keep control of your body though, and might spin and hit your head. What say you in 2023?
shareJump towards the bottom of the mountain with your board on trying to ride it out, assuming the incline is enough that you don't do a dead stop and absorb the entire impact of the fall.
I typically have my board tool on me. I would remove my bindings, strap them to the wire rope as handles and ride down to safter place to get off, could be jumping to a tree, into some powder, a steep incline, or a support pole with a ladder.
What would you do?
I'd do the same thing I did last time I went to Colorado with friends. I'll stay my ass off the mountain because snow sports have no appeal to me, therefore I'll never be stuck on some ski lift for days on end.
shareFirstly use all possible clothes you can all spare, tie them together to make as long a rope possible. They had a lot of jeans which can hold a lot of weight and jackets, multiple layers of them. This will more than likely make the drop insignificant or at least reduce the height by almost half. The idiot in the movie didn't even bother hanging off the chair before dropping, instead leaps straight off from his sitting position and actually gave himself more momentum on gravities side.
Anyway once you're hanging from the bottom your clothes rope, try and swing yourself upwards (swing towards uphill half diagonally), this again will reduce how far you fall as you're not jumping towards where the ground gets lower - you also gain some sidewards momentum to reduce impact.