This slope in Sweden proves to be especially difficult for skiers as they speed down the mountain — when one skier crashes, he turns around to find that almost everyone behind him tripped in the exact same place.
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What happens when you take an old fire truck and refurbish it into the ultimate ski-mobile, pack it full with professional skier Fabian Lentsch and his crew of Snowmads , and hit the road on a massive road trip in search of powder? The absolute journey of a lifetime!
In episode 4, the boys head to Iran and meet up with some of the locals to claim some fresh tracks and good times on the mountain.
When Klaus Obermeyer started skiing 93 years ago, he skied on thin pieces of chestnut wood. The wood was from an old crate used to carry oranges. He nailed a pair of his buckle shoes to them with a couple of inches of nail sticking through the bottom, and tied one end of a string around the tips, and the other around his knees to create ski tips.
“When you’re three, you’re not a very good carpenter,” Obermeyer says.
It wasn’t until he was about 5 years old that he got his first real pair of skis … More