Archive for the ‘Skiing’ Category
Red Bull Media House, in association with MSP Films, presents “DAYS OF MY YOUTH”, a new film that examines every skier’s lifelong affinity for the sport. Narrated to the prolific readings of Alan Watts, this film exposes the many joys and occasional struggles associated with a lifestyle built around skiing. Filmed over two years using state of the art techniques and technologies, this movie offers a unique glimpse into the journey of self-discovery that every skier experiences.
Speedriding is a high-speed, high stakes mountain sport that fuses elements of skiing and parachute flight. This hybrid approach to the alpine gives its intrepid practitioners access to terrain that would otherwise be inaccessible. In The Unrideables: Alaska Range, one of the world’s foremost experts on human flight, Jon DeVore, sets out with a team of elite aerial athletes to evolve the sport in North America’s most remote and demanding mountain environment.
We highlight Andrew Weibrecht’s journey down the mountain. Growing in Lake Placid the site of the 1980 winter olympics he was exposed to downhill skiing at an early age and later on, he was inspired by greats such as Daron Rahlves. His break out run at “Birds of Prey” at Beaver Creek in 2007 was just the beginning of an individual pursuit of speed that includes two olympic medals.