Shane McConkey’s Wife & Daughter Lives Saved By Carbon Monoxide Detector Free skiing visionary Shane McConkey’s (1969-2009) wife and daughter, Sherry and Ayla, were saved last night by their carbon monoxide detection system in their home. Sherry, who posted on Instagram today about what had happened, said her carbon monoxide detector went off in her home late last night. She said that that the detector was old, and may have been […] Industry News SnowBrains | December 20, 2019 0 Comments
Shane McConkey: Free to Ski “Whether it was steep, extreme descent or new freestyle, what we were doing was freeskiing, free to ski our own style on our own terms” – Shane McConkey There are so many words said about Shane. There is practically no ski or outdoor magazine, which hasn’t written about Shane, but when it comes to the legend it seems like it’s never […] Featured Article Claire Weiss | August 28, 2019 0 Comments
VIDEO: Shane McConkey Squeezes Through Tight Line on Squaw Valley’s Illegal “Tram Face” “One of the wildest things about this legendary line (now called Sluiceway) is that Shane never scouted it. We’d hiked up it in the summer and he obviously had a general idea how it played out, but when I went to scout it the afternoon prior to shooting, he couldn’t join me. He skinned up in the darkness of early […] SnowBrains | August 14, 2019 0 Comments
VIDEO: Matthias Giraud Performs Naked Ski-BASE Jump Dedicated to Shane McConkey [arve url="https://youtu.be/y0FPOIbDabU"] Steven Agar | July 1, 2019 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
Why Shane McConkey & Scott Gaffney Were Great Together | Scott Gaffney Interview: [arve url="https://youtu.be/f0RPwJRrElw"] SnowBrains | July 30, 2018 29 Likes 0 Tweets 5 Comments
VIDEO: We Never get Tired of Watching Shane McConkey Play James Bond in MSP’s ‘Seven Sunny Days’ You don’t need a reason to rewatch this clip over and over again. We just like to, because, well Shane McConkey. In one of the most iconic and outrageous spoof scenes ever reenacted for a ski movie, this clip of the late Shane McConkey as James Bond from Matchstick Productions’ 2007 feature-length film, Seven Sunny Days, never gets old. Explosions […] Featured Video Steven Agar | April 23, 2018 0 Comments
VIDEO: Never Before Seen Shane McConkey Ski Footage In His College Years [arve url="https://vimeo.com/215888789"] Chris Wallner | May 5, 2017 139 Likes 2 Tweets 0 Comments
Video: A Skibute to the Classics “The ski bum trades security for face shots, the future for the moment. Considering how hollow the promise of a corporate career has become, who can say the ski bum is not the wiser investor in his or her youth?” -Author Unknown Need your daily dose of awesome? Here’s a montage of ski clips dedicated to all the skiers who […] Keenan Grady | May 4, 2016 0 Comments
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