ICYMI: Crevasse fall is pure nightmare fuel

Crevasse fall is pure nightmare fuel

I’m not sure there’s much stronger nightmare fuel than the video you’re about to see. While skiing in the French Alps, Les Powtos took a tumble into what appeared to be a small hole but ended up being an impossibly deep crevasse. Les somehow manages to keep his cool and self-arrest, but not before facing the abyss. This is one of those won’t-believe-till-you-watch moments, and truly lucky that the outcome wasn’t a heck of a lot worse. Might be time to call it a season, Monsieur Powtos.

Alta celebrates 894th Frank World Ski Classic.

They came. They Franked. They probably went home with a weird tanline. Hundreds of powder-satiated skiers and boarders descended on Alta last weekend for Frank, its annual unofficial closing party and perhaps one of the weirdest celebrations in skiing. This year they got a whole lot of it on film, bringing the FOMO crowd along for the ride, and, well, it looks like a whole lot of fun. Boosty jumps, all the grillables you can stomach, and too-tight denim, this crew knows how to have a good time.

Backcountry skier trapped in hut over long weekend, survives

A French woman is kissing her lucky ski socks this week after surviving three days and four nights trapped in a mountain hut in the Alps. Aurélie Duterte was in the middle of a multi-day, solo backcountry ski trip when the hut she was staying in was buried by drifting snow from a surprise, late-season blizzard. With the only entrance covered in five feet of snow, Duterte survived off of a few cereal bars, almond paste, almonds, and apricots. She eventually flagged a helicopter by flashing a small piece of her reflective emergency blanket out a crack of the hut’s door frame, escaping the ordeal without serious injury.

Skier laces double-backflip pond skim

Welp, there’s a new skim king in town. Cache Bridges aka Straight Cache Homie tore the roof off the Alyeska pond skim last weekend with a double flip skim for the ages. Seriously, check this one out and try to avoid reacting in public. I double-dog dare you.

Old magazine archives live on Newschoolers

The media world is shifting under our feet, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a certain nostalgia for the print products we grew up with. Newschoolers, once the leading edge of the digital movement, has recently turned into one of print’s greatest guardians, archiving magazines like FREEZE, FREESKIER, Axis, and POWDER. While the latter has a quite robust collection, Newschoolers is still looking to upload and archive more volumes on their online database, letting users access the goods for free. We know there’s always room for that new new, but every once in a while, it’s nice to celebrate the roots. Thanks, Newschoolers.