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Martin Bell (born 6 December 1964, RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus) is a British former World Cup alpine ski racer. [ 1 ] Bell was educated at George Watson's College in Edinburgh and the Stams Schigymnasium in Austria.
A set of backcountry ski runs in the Battle Range of the Canadian Rocky Mountains.Notice a minor avalanche has occurred at the right of frame. Backcountry skiing (), also called off-piste (), alpine touring, freeriding or out-of-area, is skiing in the backcountry on unmarked or unpatrolled areas either inside or outside a ski resort's boundaries. [1]
Konrad Bartelski (born 27 May 1954), finished second in a World Cup downhill race in 1981, and competed at the 1972 and 1976 Winter Olympics.; Alain Baxter (born 26 December 1973, half-brother of Noel Baxter), seven-time British slalom champion, competed at the 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics, finishing third in 2002 but subsequently failed a drug test and was stripped of the bronze medal.
Snowboarders primarily refer to freeriding as backcountry, sidecountry, or off-piste snowboarding, and sometimes big mountain or extreme riding. Freeriding incorporates various aspects of riding into a style that adapts to the variations and challenges of natural, off-piste terrain, and eschews man-made features such as jumps, rails, half-pipes ...
SKI HOLIDAYS: Space, solitude and stupendous views: Seb Ramsay explores the route less travelled in this popular mountain resort
Graham Bell: Downhill 1:47.39 26 Super-G DNF Combined 1:38.94 DNS DNF Martin Bell: Downhill 1:47.49 28 Bill Gaylord: Giant Slalom 1:33.58 DQ DQ Slalom DNF DNF Combined DNF DNF Spencer Pession: Super-G DNF Giant Slalom 1:33.94 1:28.68 3:02.62 31
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La Grave is visited by off-piste and extreme skiers. The vertical drop totals 2,150 metres, although it is possible to ski below the resort to the road and increase the vertical descent to 2,300 metres. Mechanical access to the mountain is limited to a closed, two-stage, pulse gondola system.