Boris and Ivan have been skiing across the frozen steppe for many days. After too long on the front, they’re finally going home. Boris spent hours telling his colleague what he intends to do when, finally, he arrives home: hug his family, down a hearty meal, paint the dacha, tend the garden. “Ivan, what is your plan?,” he asks. “My[Read More…]
World War II produced many heroes. One of Norway’s best known died earlier this week. Joachim Ronneberg led the ski-assisted raid that destroyed the facility where Nazis were producing “heavy water,” a component they would have used to produce an atomic bomb. He was 23 when, according to his obituary in the The New York Times, he and eight other[Read More…]
Heli-Skiing In Chilean Andes With Breathtaking Lines. Yes, it’s summer and the snow is gone. Not in Chile. As you may be aware, the resort at Portillo received nine feet of snow earlier in June. Nine feet! So, we decided to follow up with an awesome video from GoPro, the versatile mini video camera company that shot this production at[Read More…]
Free-skier Tom Wallisch corks it on New Zealand’s Tallest Mountain Some say skiing is flying with different expectations. Take a look at this short video from GoPro with professional free-skier Tom Wallisch down in En-Zed. Aside from the corkscrew flip, the view of these snow fields is breathtaking. By the way, winter in New Zealand is summer in the Northern[Read More…]
GoPro Channel hosts unbelievable footage from little camera. Can you see how Nate Wallace is doing this? He’s holding a little GoPro camera on the end of an aluminum pole. The effect shows that this kind of powder skiing is nothing short of exhilarating. If you’ve never tried deep powder, this is what it’s like. Click here to be transported. Truly like a dream.
