Filmmaker Bjarne Salen, producer of the acclaimed 2015 film Eclipse, has recently announced that he will be producing a ski documentary to be released fall 2017 called Finding the Line in which he will follow two sisters and ski athletes Nat and Anna Segal in their search to understand fear. The Segal sisters will use snowy mountains and big lines as backdrops to explore the subject of fear and how it affects them in their pursuit of professional skiing.
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Speak Japanese and Shit: a language and cultural guidebook for skiers and riders
In many ways, snow acts as a universal language spoken by skiers and snowboarders the world over. Out of the backcountry and off the slopes, however, communication can get a bit more difficult when cultural barriers exist. For this reason, author and Japanophile Erinna McCarthy decided to write a guidebook, Speak Japanese and Shit, aimed to help ski and snowboard visitors to the Land of the Rising Sun navigate the sometimes confusing, sometimes outlandish ways of Japanese culture.
2017 Gear Test Profile: Caitlin Mitchell and Her Pretty Turn
As the Backcountry Gear Test rolls on, we’re taking a moment to profile those who make the whole shebang work: our testers. First up is Tester newbie Caitlin Mitchell, a Jackson resident, ripping skier and self-proclaimed expert at folding things. We caught up with Mitchell to talk ski background (including a pivotal fall to the face) and to glean some insights into her time at the test thus far.
MOUNTAIN SKILLS: TIPS FOR CLEAR COMMUNICATION
Early last winter I was skiing some sheltered powder on a treed slope near Teton Pass in a group of three experienced backcountry skiers. We assessed the snow, discussed safe zones, and dug a quick, hasty pit to confirm prior observations. Feeling good about the slope, the first skier dropped in and made a quick […]
Safe Passions remembers Andreas Fransson, teaches skiers
A year after ski mountaineer Andreas Fransson died in a South American avalanche, Fransson’s sister, Sandra, is starting an organization in his memory. An artist, Sandra has designed and is selling a poster inspired by her brother, and the artwork is printed on a pair of Salomon MTN Lab skis, available for auction. It’s all to raise funds for a youth-focused educational initiative that will kick off with a safety course in Chamonix this January, taught by Andreas’s friend, Morgan Salén, and in partnership with Salomon and Recco.
Women’s Ski Camps: Five programs designed to push boundaries
Gone are the days of using “you ski like a girl” as an insult. With the host of women’s ski camps available to females young and old, there are now more opportunities than ever for women to get out and push their boundaries on skis. Whether it’s backcountry skiing or resort shredding, these all-female camps provide the training grounds for experienced skiers who just happen to have two X chromosomes.
Snow Shooter: Oskar Enander
For color-blind photographer Oskar Enander, shooting is all about shadows—he loves winter’s contrast of light and dark. Born in Gothenberg Sweden, Enander moved to the Alps in a van to live as a ski bum but picked up photography along the way.
Pure: Sandra Lahnsteier and the Women of Skiing
There’s a move afoot in skiing and riding, and it’s driven by ladies. Women have always punctuated the narrative of backcountry skiing, but their supporting role in the barrage of slow-mo ski porn dominating the ski film industry has more than a few ladies fed up. Sandra Lahnsteiner is one of them.
Learning Liz Daley: On tour with splitboarding’s brightest female
Among the handful of dedicated, professional splitboard mountaineers, there are few females, which made Liz Daley a niche within a niche. Over the last few years, Daley actively built her résumé with first descents on Cascade volcanoes and by shredding lines in the French Alps surrounding her wintertime residence of Chamonix, France. In the February 2014 issue of Backcountry, contributor John Wright profiled Daley, who died on Monday, September 29 in an avalanche in Argentina.
Mind Over Mountain: Andreas Fransson’s Story
Andreas Fransson defined modern extreme skiing with fearless firsts and repeat descents that ranked among those of steep-skiing pioneers who, before him, delimited what was doable on skis. He shattered those limits. Editor Tyler Cohen spent a few days in 2013 skiing in Chamonix, France to ski in the shadow of a legend who died Monday, September 29.
