John Florence lands one of the biggest alley oops of all time while surfing Aints, on the North Shore, December 17th, 2016.
“He was duck diving for 15 minutes before he got that wave. Literally 15, ten footers on the head. Then bang, that wave.” – Stace Galbraith (Filmer)
Skiing as sport is in it’s infancy in China, a phenomenon of the country’s exploding middle class. As a means of survival, however, it is thousands of years old, a stone age hunter-gatherer technology born in the Altai mountains where China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Siberia merge. On a vast trajectory that spans 11,000km of Northern China, Chad Sayers and Forrest Coots touch down into the rich past and dizzying future of these two respective Chinese ski cultures. As one rapidly expands, they find the other is at risk of disappearing.