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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 ...
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.
Scot Schmidt (born July 21, 1961, in Helena, Montana) is a professional extreme skier. [1] [2] Schmidt began ski racing in his hometown of Helena, Montana. He moved to Squaw Valley in 1979 to pursue a dream of making the U.S. Ski Team., and started skiing professionally in 1983. That year, Warren Miller Entertainment invited him to showcase his ...
All cases in the list below are from alpine or downhill skiing activities; no skiers have been known to have died during any cross-country event, or in any major international ski jumping competitions (e.g. FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, FIS Ski Jumping Continental Cup, FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, and the Olympic Games), though many ski ...
Glen Plake (born September 9, 1964) is a US National Ski Hall of Fame skier. He grew up in Lake Tahoe, skiing Heavenly Valley. [1] He is known for his appearances in ski films such as Greg Stump's The Blizzard of Aahhhs. Plake has been named a pioneer of extreme skiing in America by ESPN. Glen has been the host of the RSN program Reel Thrills.
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 ...