Most people might look at skiing off a 250 foot high cliff at Mount Hood as a bad thing. That is unless you are doing it on purpose, sporting a parachute, and videotaping the whole thing.

That’s exactly what 24-year-old Matthias Giraud did Thursday. The pro skier is apparently the first person to ever ski “base-jump” off the cliff at Mississippi Head.

Giraud got going about 40 miles-per-hour on the snow before he flew off the edge of the cliff.

When asked what was going through his mind at that exact moment; Giraud said, “the edge is coming, you're committed, you can't get out of it anymore. My main concern was be stable, come out really clean cause if not you could have dramatic consequences, slam back into the cliff, get your lines all twisted, worse, get your skis twisted in your lines, your chute doesn't open, you fall to your death.”

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Matthias said he’s been a pro skier for about four years but has only been base jumping for a few months.

The Mississippi Head jump was his first base jump on skis.

The daredevil said he has plans to ski off mountain cliffs at Lake Tahoe, Jackson Hole and hopefully be the first to jump off Engineer Mountain in Colorado.