And someone who has been involved in at least a dozen avalanches, I find that people love to play the blame game and call people stupid etc etc. At the end of the day it's your choice with your life. If you do that a slope had a 1% chance that avalanche and if an avalanche you had a 1% chance of dying would you ski the slope? What if it was 2% what if it was 5% what if was point 5%. The art of Snow science is guessing what are the chances that this rips and then you as a person have to decide whether it's worth skiing that slope. Also if he's been a pro skier for multiple decades and made only one mistake I'd say is track records pretty good
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Nice! Hopefully I can make it back to Lyngen soon aswell... Just love it up north! How do your legs cope with skating wide skis? My legs are completely toast after skating with my 108s for a few meters when i didn't have enough speed for a short uphill ^^
Haha, yeah, its not optimal, i dont mind it if the snow is form enough though. On this day we skated back in the icy lake below with a strong tailwind so it was actually not a biggie at all :)
Look out for the detail…. When the snow condition change was recognised what was he meant to do? Stop… traverse across away from location??? Isn’t it to late by that point. Slufff could take you out if your not bias to left or right.
The ego is an illusion, Denny. We're all only random collections of thoughts and emotions, different from day to day, bundled together into a story we tell ourselves about what we are in order to navigate the world.
Haha yeah, the plan was actually to hit ut much smaller and to the skiers right but i think i was so busy thinking about the lower part of the run i kind of blacked out in the first few seconds 😅
The lesson that you should take is, that you‘re actively ignoring avy-risk-science and that riding with that kind of risk is on the deadly edge. I think you‘re addicted by the rush and the kick. It‘s still your decision, but you have to clearify under every video, that you‘re willing to risk your life for the rush and the shot.
wouldnt that be something, every video starts with a disclaimer "I am willing to risk my life for these shots". I think you're onto something, might drive more clicks.
@@JacobWesterSki I don‘t see your point, that would only be so, if you put it directly on the thumbnail, which you are doing. A small disclaimer, that you aren‘t sticking to general avalanche-risk management to protect young shredders of doing the same wouldnt‘d be so bad
Wow Jacob and Sofia, this was an amazing film. I see Niko has been inspiring some others with his eco-friendly approach to skiing. I think it makes the films just that more amazing seeing the process of the bootpacking to and from the mountains. The shots at 12:34 and on were too good, the avalanche just dumping over the features with those insane airs out of the lines.
@@JacobWesterSki 🤘for what it's worth my local ski area is in a national park and back in my day you could buy a single ride lift ticket for five bucks and take a wild ride down the backside of the mountain they cut for the world cup back in the thirties( I'm sure you still can, but not for five bucks). The front side is tiny it's the most east coast mountain in the whole Sierra Nevada. Guess my mountian? Also it's a national park so you can show up and hike it and they can't say shit cause you own it.
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Tack, ingen dålig idé! Tycker vitt är snyggare och att det funkade på de flesta ställen ändå. Sen funkar ju ändå youtubes autotexter hyggligt bra om man vill ha det ännu tydligare 🙏🏻
Great video! Was surprised at how far away Sofia stayed to shoot it. Somehow would have expected her to stay closer to the face. And don't know how she does nothing for 4,5 h without just sleeping (I would then just oversleep and miss the shot ^^). When ski touring in Lyngen, the group wanted to do an additional face in the light. But my fitness in general is pretty bad. So after the first 1200m and 400m descent i let them go since they returned the same way around. I brought my DSLR with a 28-300mm lens and just did some pictures of Zastrugis and snow being blown across them etc. until they reached the still lit part of that face. So i photographed them. One of those photos is still hanging on my wall... So there I only had to wait for ~1h before getting to shoot them. But 4.5h - no chance... Short side note: Do you use the same edit across different platforms and different uses? Just thought that if you place the recommended video in the end card always in the bottom left corner, that the sponsor logo probably should be moved up a bit for the youtube videos. This might mean that you need to make 2 different versions if you use those for other purposes aswell.
Thank you! Sofia usually comes with us a lot closer to the line or even up the opposite side of the valley to get a better view, but in this case the valley was so tight and the sides so steep, that had she been any closer we wouldn't have been able to talk on the radio due to the cliff being in the way. I agree that so many hours just waiting is pretty wild, and i'm always impressed by her patience, haha! thanks for that sidenote, I changed the end screen :)
I lost a great friend last year in a slide. He was on guided cat trip and the guide took them to part of the mountain that was unsafe. Things can change quickly up there.
@JacobWesterSki you skied the rocks like you were ballroom dancing. Do you even take your skis off? Or can you do everything in them? I wanna see you do video of you guys in your skis all day doing normal stuff. 😆
Sometimes you do have to take them off yes, but most of the time keeping them on equals less work. As long as there’s a bit of snow on top of the rocks you can kind of wiggle your way down!
Cool video! never mind the haters, you’re not saying everyone should live like you, and I think explaining and taking lessons from what happened and sharing that is super valuable. Totally unrelated questions, what Radio do you use? Doesn’t look like the classical BCA? Also what are your shoes? Cheers
In my opinion, you make your own choices and decide your risk tolerance. And that’s all. Obviously, you pay your bill if things don’t go as planned, but it’s just a part of the game. Otherwise, don’t you make snow testing or just don’t show them in your videos?.
I agree! Of course we test the snow by digging pits and spotting weak layers. I haven’t included the process in my videos simply because we’re not trained professionals (not ski guides), and that kind of info can be found on many other channels made by the proper pros!
I do feel you’re glamorizing avalanches to a degree. But you don’t seem to really deny that. The footage is very impressive and I think people like you that push these limits and document it well could push snow science forward. Do you think “surviving” will continue to push your risk tolerance? Ever see you feeling that your luck has run out and dialing it back? If you do it long enough you’ll eventually have a life altering or ending event, which you seem fine with.
Not fine with it at all. What this video doesnt show is the many times we do turn around too. It happens a lot, and i constantly go through the worst possible scenarios in my head. Made it so far (knock on wood), so hopefully doing something right?
