For the fastest skiers on the planet, speed is the most natural thing in the world
A speed skier’s world unravels before their brain can catch up. A groove in the snow, a misangled ski, and before the mind even realizes it, the body is in a 200 kilometer per hour slide for life. Snow becomes fire—the custom-made speed suit designed to eliminate wind resistance doing little to relieve the scorching friction of skin on frozen water.
“Can you imagine being in a really, really hot frying pan and not being able to escape?” … More
Between Wanaka and Queenstown, on New Zealand’s South Island, all you need to do is look up to find the country’s highest bike park. Cardrona literally lives in the clouds, a gondi-accessed microcosm defined by its switchbacking singletrack, technical rock gardens, and seemingly bottomless vertical drop. In this second installment of The Wright Line, we catch up with enduro-overachiever Keegan Wright, who demonstrates a few key riding techniques on his way from the peak to the valley-floor door of the legendary Cardrona Pub.