Text and Photos by Yvette Cardozo, Bill Hirsch and Quebec Tourism
Vol. 12. No. 4
Jump! And, one by one, we’re off … swooping down a zip line above clowns, kids riding toboggans, and the snow sculptures of Winter Carnival’s Place Desjardins.
It’s cold. Probably close to zero. As we stand shivering being body harnessed to a long cable on a platform high above Quebec City’s Plains of Abraham, we notice that nobody below us seems to mind the cold. “This is how we celebrate winter,” a local behind us says before we leap. “It takes our mind off the weather. It’s a great reason to party.”