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By Amina Nazarli

Azerbaijan’s first ski resort -- Shahdag Winter and Summer Tourism Complex-- hosted very energetic and enjoyable "Bizon Catapult” project.

Each participant, wearing colorful and unusual dress, was fastened to an elastic rope, and snowmobile catapulted extreme enthusiasts with a distance of 20-meters. The show was quite entertaining, as 30 participants in a creative costumes flied at high speed back and forth.

The jury selected the winners based on specified criteria such as creative concept, including costume and performance, as well as audience award.

In the nomination of “Creative concept” the winner became Elshad Asadov, who performed James Bond, and in the “Audience Award” nomination Fidan Ismikhanova, who dressed like Jessica Rabbit.

The winners received many prizes from project partners, and most importantly bright emotions and a lot of adrenaline.

The event was organized by Xtreme Pro and BIZON Energy Drink in partnership with the "Shahdag" ski resort.

Located in the Shahdag National Park, 32 km from the center of Gusar region, 2,350 meters above sea level, the resort differs from similar facilities in the world for its uniqueness and diversity.

Despite Shahdag was opened only in December 2012, it could already attracted many people, as last year the complex was visited by 97,000 tourists. The tourism complex is one of the most advanced projects not only in Azerbaijan, but also in the world, operating all the year round.

Recently, the ski complex entered the top ten ski resorts of the CIS countries, according to the joint rating of Travel.ru travel services and Forbes.

The complex offers guests a seemingly endless list of thrilling sports and leisure activities with three hotels for 500 people, 7 cableways, which are over 6,000 meters long, and 11 ski slopes with length of 13,000 meters.

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Amina Nazarli is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow her on Twitter: @amina_nazarli

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