Midi opening day with ben briggs and christian cabanilla
It is always good to have someone under 25 years old you can send first in that situation…Ben Briggs was the kid today although …I had to clean the south ridge myself. And you always need a virgin , It was Chris Cabanilla first midi run, so… … Its good and wild out there!
ps: i posted a lot of pictures, not because they are good (it was white out) but so you can assess the amount of snow around…
Alone in the bin with christian cabanilla and ben briggs
send the kids first
and the virgin: Christian cabanilla looking good.
Ben Briggs
christian cabanilla raping
christian cabanilla
christian cabanilla
ThE DaY THe WoRLD ENDED 21/12/13—with david rosenbarger-luca pandolfi and christian cabanilla
david rosenbarger
luca pandolfi
christian cabanilla
Moody day
A little hike, amazing views and great powder. I was testing the movie part of my camera so I didnt get good action shots. Just one frame whilst filming …i am torn sometime between video and pictures…
La Palud. Italy
La Palud is a 30 min drive from chamonix under a tunnel…And a very different atmosphere.
you start by having coffee and breakfast
then you wait at a massive and stressful line .
and you you go for a run
and one more runs
david rosenbarger, aiguille du midi, chamonix mont blanc
and yes..you go again
you end the day with pizza and beer
bonus
simple.
first day in cham back in the snow
So my fall season has been pretty bad as far as pictures taking goes.My time in the USA was great and it is very unfortunate i couldnt take any pictures… I had issues with a camera sensor, then both camera got lost and shipped at the wrong places and Now, i just realize that the canon 5d mark 3 raw files are not supported by lighroom 3 and you have to get lightroom 4. I hate adobe and canon. But i had a pretty good first day skiing in the forest…that is it
Patagonia , USA winter catalogue
This is going to buy me a brand new lens…
Patagonia USA winter catalogue
col de la brenva : voie tardivel. The wild side.
go up mont maudit make a left.
Dropping there is a very special moment. it is a very intense,unusual time. Everything looks huge and brutal . you know you are in for a very long ski in a very wild and beautiful place.
When we scoped the face from the tour ronde i thought it was going to be a lot easier: a nice ballad. the scale is so huge, from that far away i couldnt size things correctly. Like the gigantic serac and cornices we were skiing under , the rock bands which were a lot bigger and steeper , the overall lenght of the face. WE had a nice 20 cm of fresh snow on the top of nice edge-able crust. I could never find a safe spot or even anckor myself to my poles to set up and take pictures. Its never too steep but never a comfortable angle. At every turns, my partners would throw some wet heavy snow that could potentially take me off my edges. whilst Taking pictures of skiers under the serac i thought what if that thing goes, would I feel stupid for being here, will i get knocked off and slide down the abyss… I rapidly switched my mind back to enjoying the skiing , breath-in the outrageously beautiful and wild place i am in the middle of . I realize how privileged i am to be there. thanks to skiing and tardivel.
The route finding in the rock band was not hard but stressful knowing what is above you.
It is surely among the most beautiful face i have skied in the wildest place i have been to. also the most dangerous.
After skiing the face we went over the kuffner ridge and we skied down another steep couloir in hard condition with very tired legs. we then skied the valley blanche, we went up the montenver steps and rode the train down to cham. We Finished the day with a well deserved beer and burger at elevation.
this is the face, Brenden who took the first bin is on it , can you see him?
the previous evening
midi bivy
Ben is the only one to ski the ridge, in the dark with north wind and in really bad condition.
on the kuffner , the last steep couloir before the valley blanche and the beer.
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du maïs sur la tour ronde
harvesting corn on the tour ronde was just perfect. fuck extreme skiing! and fuck that hair on my sensor.
spring powder. 2 days in the valley with Mark Shelp and Michael-bird-shaffer
une bande de cochons et pis c est tous. des salopards au col des courtes …
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greenland
I was hired as a photographer by elemental adventure
things didnt happen as planned due to a broken heli. nevertheless we scored 3 good days of skiing: swiss style . The villages and the people are beautiful and generous , the scenics are just breathtaking hense the amount of pictures. I tried to put just a few…i will just shut up then! I want to go back.
too much foehn here. I am heading to greenland
I was hired as a photographer by elemental adventure to take pictures on a heliski trip in greenland. I am heading there sunday. I will keep on posting once i am there. meanwhile 2 videos:
freeriding in chamonix the past 2 weeks:
freeriding in austria? sometime before I was born:
the white room.
Ally Swinton
Philip Ebert
Philip Ebert
Ally Swinton
Ally Swinton
Philip Ebert
Ally Swinton
Philip Ebert
A daley cosmique. a bird with an umbrella. flower. apres ski with a red fish.
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Jordan manley
Jordan Manley is still my favorite ski film director.
Freshfield Icefield: A Skier’s Journey Ep3 from Jordan Manley Photography on Vimeo.
the window
the spring weather patterns are making the weatherman look like a hysterical junky who took a bunch of acid before writing his forecast. However, we found a window big enough for a kaw-aw-wing crowmonkey, a growling goat, a punkviking a few frenchies some yankees ..later followed by more vikings and one south african.
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poudreuse with a view
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mark shelp
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john minogue
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nicklas hansen
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- booter
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les jardin de talefre
My friend Kevin who I met riding in Mammoth lakes california is visiting cham for the first time. We havent seen each other since i moved to Chamonix and he moved to Montana (is there mountains there?). So what a better way to introduce him to cham and to what Ive been doing for the past 5 years than to take him in the heart of it all: Les jardins de talefre. Loaded with wiskey, pastis and cigarettes we go on his first ride up the aiguille du midi and on to the refuge du couvercle on a 2 days trip. My 2 rad friends Brendan and Magnus joined us for the first day. We skied the croulante and the col des droites. both in good conditions. The col des droites was perfect corn top to bottom and is a great run, i have being denying that run over the more aggressive runs around for a long time and it ended up being the best skiing i’ve had in that basin. Dumb me. Despite a crampon coming off his soft snowboard boots , kevin did great and came back in one piece. We would have stayed another week there, but we ran out of booze, cigarettes and snus…
Cedric Bernardini 