Jeremie Heitz

The Swiss outdoor outfitter Mammut and the Swiss freeride pro Jérémie Heitz have jointly developed a hardshell combination especially for freeride use. Top materials and sophisticated features promise a lot. We have tested whether the combination delivers what it promises in practice.

You can't reinvent the ski, unless your name is Sean McConkey. All striving for powder and weightlessness has its origins in steep face skiing. So in these hopefully reflective days for all of us, let's go back to those roots. After all, whatever we do in the mountains: style means everything.

Welcome to the new VdW season! Spectators are not the rule at our games anyway and the world probably needs moving images to dream and indulge more than ever. And hopefully our beloved heroes, and those who want to become heroes, will always be able to show us all the perfect white mountain world freely and without restrictions.

A few years ago, the brothers Lars and Silas Chikering-Ayres developed a binding system due to a lack of alternatives, which makes it possible to ascend with a pin toe piece and descend with an alpine binding and boots. What is the background to the Cast system, why is the original system no longer being sold and what is coming next?

For the film "La Liste", Swiss freeskier Jérémie Heitz set himself an ambitious goal: Within two years, he wanted to conquer 15 of the most impressive steep slopes in the Alps on skis - at a speed that would make him a pioneer.

Since this season, the Swiss alpine specialist Mammut has also been offering a vest in its range of airbag backpacks and is thus consistently working on expanding its freeride range. At first glance, an airbag vest appears to be a purely niche product. In an extensive test, various testers tested the vest for function and practicality and realized that the vest is more suitable for everyday use than they had initially assumed.

Since mid-December, the Swiss sporting goods manufacturer with US roots has been publishing a new freeride-related story every ten days on its "Moments of Freeride" blog.

The fourth stop of the Feeride World Tour 2014 in Snowbird/Utah started on Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at 10 a.m. North American local time (= MST, Mountain Standard Time). It started with the women's snowboard and ski races, with the men's race coming last.

South Tyrolean Markus Eder and La Grave local Aurelién Routens win the second stop of the Freeride World in Courmayeur. The other skiers on the podium were Revelstoke winner Jérémie Heitz (Switzerland) and Swede Reine Barkered. Among the snowboarders, John Rodosky (USA) and Emilien Badoux (Switzerland) won the places.

The FREERIDE WORLD TOUR kicked off with wins for the favorites in all four disciplines. In first-class conditions in Revelstoke (B.C.), Canada, Drew Tabke (USA) and Christine Hargin (SWE) won the skiers' event, while Ralph Backstrom (USA) and Shannan Yates (USA) won the snowboarders' event.

Hagrin, Yates, Tabke and Backstrom win the first tour stop of the 2013 Freeride World Tour in Revelstoke!