Tervor Peterson, one of the best known extreme backountry skiers, died in Chamonix, France in a tragic ski accident while skiing with ski legend Glen Plake. In this ski movie trailer for the recently realed ski movie “The Edge of Never” Glen Plakes goes with Trevor Peterson’s son, Kye Peterson, is 15 years old, on the same run that his father died on.
If you like the trailer, the movie as well as the book can be bought online using the links below!
Movie: The Edge of Never; A True Story of Skiing’s Big Mountain Tribe
Book:The Edge of Never: A Skier’s Story of Life, Death, and Dreams in the World’s Most Dangerous Mountains
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March 30, 2010 at 10:35 pm
As the title of this video says, the coolest extreme skiing dudes, is a really cool ski video of extreme skiing in the woods. The pro extreme skiers go ski jumping over cliffs in the glades, go down some crazy steeps between cliffs, and do some simple tricks all with great camera work in some really deep powder. These extreme skiers make it look too easy.
On top of the amazing deep powder skiing, there is also some solid telemark skiing.
The scenery is also splendid, would love to go skiing there. Unfortunately, I have no idea where this video is filmed…
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March 29, 2010 at 8:17 pm
Here’s an awesome aerial ski video of Frank Bare back in 1983. First, the ski video shows him and his bodies putting the finishing touches on the ramp in the backountry. you Frank Bare is an amazing aerial skiing and does one of the craziest aerial ski tricks, a quadruple backflip. That is four full backflips, which involves triple twisting!
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February 25, 2010 at 7:12 pm
Here is a video of a crazy ski jumping accident that happened at a World Cup Event in Zakopane, Poland held in January 2007.
There were strong, variable winds causing problems for the ski jumpers. In this ski jumping video, Jav Mazoch, one of the competiors, seems to be doing fine after taking off from the ski ramp. Then, a fluke air pocket causes him to lose lift and he takes a terrible fall.
He ended up being in a coma and had some brain injuries but has since recovered and has resumed ski jumping.
Just added a new section under learning to ski with videos on how to stretch before your ski trip, at the start of your skiing day, and at the end of you day.
Here’s a funny ski jumping video of a hilarious accident. The skier jumps of a 2m high ramp in the backcountry trying to land on a landing that’s higher than the jump. He fails to clear the gap, mistaking the speed required to clear it, and crashes into the wall of snow head first! This video is legendary.
Corbet’s Couloir is the most famous and hardest run at Jackson Hole in Wyoming. It is one of the few slopes to have its own wikipedia article! Here are some highlights:
“Currently rated #4 on the top fifty things for skiers to do before they die, it holds an international reputation among expert skiers, and has been described as “America’s scariest ski slope”
“Entrance into the couloir requires dropping off a cornice with a free fall ranging from 10 to 30 feet (9.1 m) depending upon snow conditions, landing on a 60 plus degree slope.”
So it’s pretty hard. In this ski video, we see the guy skiing up to the ski run, past a big “CLOSED” sign. They chill up at the top and watch a guy ski down it nicely. The camera man’s friend then jumps in, doesn’t look too good. We are then informed that he “yard saled” and see him collecting his equipment. Ends up he has an ACL injury, that sucks. Awesome run though!
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February 16, 2010 at 2:16 pm
Crazy skiers dropping 200+ feet on skis. Check out the 2nd one, he almost hits a huge rock at the bottom, must be inches away from it! The mini avalanches he creates while getting speed for the jump are pretty cool. The highest is 245 feet. I can’t imagine what goes through their minds as they jump…
If you are wondering why they are landing upside down but slightly on their backs after the cliff drops it’s because the force of the landing will probably break their legs.
Here’s the name and height of each crazy high cliff jump:
Titus Engelborg ski jumps off a 210 foot high clif
Leo Brayman sk jumps off a 230 foot high cliff
Jamie Pierre ski jumps off a 245 foot high cliff
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January 15, 2010 at 6:10 am
Now you can view videos and learn to ski. If you already know how to ski, you can use the videos and improve your skills. There will be lots of ski learning resources added as time goes by.
This section launches with the 11 chapters of the Danish ski learning videos “The Way to Better Skiing”.
You can access this section by clicking here, following the “Learn” link at the top of the page, or on the right of the page under “Content”.
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January 6, 2010 at 7:48 pm
Some sweet video shots of deep powder skiing in the glades at one of the best ski resorts on the East Coast. The riders know what they’re doing as they fly between obstacles. Can’t stop talking saying good things about Jay Peak, most snow in the East (32 feet!) and lots and lots of crazy expert ski terrain in the woods.
It’s normally hard to get decent video out in the forest but these guys do an amazing job. There’s a close moment in the middle of the video where a rider does a cliff drop in the glades and almost lands on another riders, but nothing happened.
“I love Jay but I’m Not Gay”
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