Pro Skier James Heim Discusses His Big Breaks… James Heim just did a great interview with SBC Skier and discussed his big breaks: 1. How he got his big break into MSP ski movies & 2. How he broke his back and pelvis badly at Whistler, B.C. We’ve excerpted those two portions of the interview. Read the full interview here: In the summer of 2002 our whole Rossland crew moved to Whistler to ski on the glacier. The rest went home afterwards, […] SnowBrains | December 23, 2013 0 Comments
Scot Schmidt Avalanche Interview: “I Got My Ass Handed to Me By a Massive Avalanche” “I didn’t know anything about big mountains. I basically got my ass handed to me by a massive slide and I was lucky to have walked away from it. That experience alone put me on a whole different path. If I hadn’t have had that experience I wouldn’t have been as cautious and as intuitive and as conscious.” – Scot Schmidt Robb Gaffney […] Avalanche SnowBrains | October 8, 2013 1 Comment
“Will Squaw Valley Become a Town?” | SnowBrains Interview with Incorporate Olympic Valley A New Town of Squaw Valley? Snowbrain’s interview with Dr. Fred Ilfeld, founding member of Incorporate Olympic Valley SB: How did the idea of forming a new town of Squaw Valley come about? FI: One of our group was pondering how the huge changes proposed for the Village development might affect the Valley, when the image of the old classic […] SnowBrains | September 5, 2013 5 Comments
Ueli Steck Interview on “Fight on Everest” | “100 People Trying to Kill 3 People” – Ueli Now we are hearing the “Fight on Everest” story from the horse’s mouth. Uli Steck, the Swiss climber who was violently attacked by a mob of 100 Sherpas, has been interviewed by Outside Magazine. All 3 professional European climbers involved in this Everest Fight (Ueli Steck, Jon Griffith, Simone Moro) are going home without attempting the summit of Everest. This interview […] SnowBrains | May 3, 2013 10 Comments
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