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Steep
Country: USA
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In Steep, writer-director Mark Obenhaus travels across the globe with a group of skiers who eschew popular resorts in favor of more harrowing runs down rugged mountains that were never meant to accommodate a pair of skis. According to this documentary, the sport of extreme big-mountain skiing took hold in Jackson Hole Wyoming, in the 1960s, when Bill Briggs decided to try skiing mountains in the Grand Tetons that no one had ever imagined navigating. Not long afterward, European skiers tried the same treacherous gambit in the French Alps. Legends were born, and other daredevils decided to follow suit. Most of the people in this extraordinary documentary will tell you how the mountains speak to them, how one day the mountains will be kind to them and the next day, not. They will talk about people they've known who've been swept away by the snows or sailed off the edges of ragged cliffs to their deaths. And they'll tell you that none of it has been enough to stop them from going into the mountains again. The film features past and current extreme skiers from all over they world who say much the same thing: they live for the danger and that they thrive on going where no one else has gone. Steep tells a tale of bold adventure, exquisite athleticism and the pursuit of the perfect moment on skis. "There is no such thing as too much snow." Hollywood Reporter |
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