Welcome to Tool School - Tim Emmett’s monthly guide for kit you wish you had when pushing your limits! Ueli Steck – the Swiss climbing machine, has been working closely with the design teams at Scarpa and Mountain Hardwear to create his dream selection of kit. The result is a range of clothing, equipment and footwear that ...
To keep up with the increased focus on touring skis and boots, bindings have also evolving to meet the demands of the growing ski touring market. There are two general directions bindings are going; there’s an alpine-style binding that works with touring boots, and then there are the beefed-up low-tech bindings such as the new Dynafit ...
A couple of years ago, Andreas Fransson and filmmaker Bjarne Salén set off for South America to climb and ski the highest mountains on the continent. Follow their journey in this short travel/ski film and it will leave you with a greater appreciation for ski lifts and short approaches. The Andes Ski Adventure from Bjarne Salén on Vimeo.
When Tempting Fear was released this autumn, it swept people away at film festivals with its harsh yet beautiful insight into the life of extreme skier extraordinaire, Andreas Fransson. Now, Salomon Freeski TV has finally published the whole movie online. EpicTV had a little talk with Andreas about the film and how he feels about it today. ...
Bjarne Salen is no stranger to adventure. He’s been Kayaking in Nepal, cruised some of the remotest parts of the world in search of that illusive ski line, and enjoys bathing in the snow naked. He’s a Swede afterall. But he’s also a film maker and photographer and over the last few years he’s been teaming up with ...
A year goes by and time seems to have played just another trick on me. I would feel exactly the same as I did a year ago if it weren’t for all the memory footprints that life has left in my inner dialog. They give me a sense of meaning, and as I collect them I feel like I get richer for every year. I guess meaningful things are the actions ...
VOTE NOW for the EpicTV Awards Adventurer of the Year 2012 Skill, strength, courage, commitment, creativity, wisdom, a bit of luck, the ability to remain calm when things go south, and the undeniable, irresistible, unavoidable desire to squeeze every last drop out of life that they possibly can – these are just a few of the characteristics ...
Talk about being impatient… We knew there was snow up on the Aiguille in Chamonix, and some of us just couldn’t wait to hit it. On November 20th 2012, a keen crew consisting of Julien “Pika” Herry, Francesco Civra Dano, Luca Rolli and Davide Capozzi took off from the Aiguille du Midi car park (1000m) at 2.30am ...
The third and last episode of the Lyngen Descents series is finally online. Last April I packed my car and drove to the Lyngen Alps in the very north of Norway, for a ski-mountaineering expedition together with Bjarne and Morgan Salén. Situated far north of the artic circle, the half island of Lyngen is filled with jagged mountains and steep ...
In the wake of the avalanche on Manaslu that killed 11 people comes a story of phenomenal achievement. Benedikt Böhm from the Dynafit team has become the first person to ski the 8156-meter peak without oxygen and he did it in under 24 hours Base Camp to summit and back. The achievement is even more remarkable considering the role the Dynafit ...
