In this week’s video, a mountaintop accident takes Algerian kiteboarder “Magic” Malik Bouchenafa for an unexpected ride.

(Feature photo: Drift Snowkite Magazine)

Bouchenafa starts his run well, catching a good gust of wind that tugs him off the ground – and then proceeds to continue lifting him up.

At the end of the video, Bouchenafa appears to be unhurt, if a little dazed. How he got away uninjured is a mystery to us.

Props go out to Matadorian Joel Runyon for sending in this one.

From all of us at Matador, have an extreme weekend!

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  • http://musictravelwrite.wordpress.com Michelle

    Crazy…and it’s so white, it gets hard to tell just how high he is. (I’m sure he thought the same thing!)

  • http://www.JoelRunyon.com Joel Runyon

    It’s RuNyon…haha…
    I would have peed my pants the whole time…

    Its amazing how that wind can carry you. I tried kite-surfing on water and I almost drowned!
    http://blog.joelrunyon.com/373/travel/face-meet-water-a-beginners-story-of-kite-surfing.html

    • Adam Roy

      Fixed your name – sorry for the typo!

  • http://matadortrips.com/ Hal Amen

    Seems like that could possibly happen all the time…does it?

  • http://matadortravel.com/travel-community/xtremxpert XtremXpert

    That’s crazy, I taught he will go up on the mountain.

  • http://www.joelrunyon.com Joel

    haha, I’m just playing. Thanks for posting the video!

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