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Pages in category "Extreme skiers" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Jean-Marc Boivin;
Toni Valeruz made the first ski descent of the face on 60+ degree slopes on 14 May 1975, from the Shoulder of the Hörnli Ridge. [1] Mount Hood, the location of Saudan's 'first descent'. Extreme skiing is performed on long, steep (typically from 45 to 60+ degrees, or grades of 100 to 170 percent) slopes in mountainous terrain. The French coined ...
Steve Marolt skiing down the northeast ridge of Everest in 2007. This is a list of ski descents of eight-thousanders (which are the 14 highest peaks in the world that are over 8,000 meters (26,000 feet) in elevation). [1] Such feats are part of the sport of ski mountaineering, and also related to the sport of extreme skiing. The first descents ...
Extreme skiing; This page was last edited on 23 July 2020, at 16:15 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Coombs was born in Boston and grew up in Bedford, Massachusetts, skiing in New Hampshire and Vermont. [1] He attended Bedford High School (Massachusetts) [2] [3] before attending Montana State University in Bozeman where he honed his skiing skills at nearby Bridger Bowl before becoming a fixture of the extreme skiing scene in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, helping to found Valdez Heli-Ski Guides (and ...
Sylvain Saudan (23 September 1936 – 14 July 2024) was a Swiss extreme skier, dubbed "skier of the impossible."He was noted for skiing down large and steep mountains, including those in the Himalayas, North America, Asia, Africa, and Europe.
Multiple World Cups in the overall and in each discipline are marked with (#). Combined events (calculated using results from selected downhill and slalom races) were included starting with the 1974–75 season, but a discipline trophy was only awarded during the next season and then once again starting with the 1979–80 season.
Alpine skiing. This is a list of all female winners in FIS Alpine Ski World Cup from 1967 to present. The list includes all downhill, super-G, giant slalom, slalom, combined and parallel/city events, but does not show team events.