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This week's selection is made up of eight current films, including Pops by Sam Kuch, a heart-warming short film about becoming a father, as well as some classics that are perfect for the Christmas season. Let yourself be surprised, enjoy the holidays and end the year in peace. We take a journey through time from the 1980s to the 2020s and ask the question: Which ski or snowboard film was formative for its decade and was at the center of an entire era?

The first turns of the season have been made, but to be honest: There was still room for improvement. Classic: Over the summer, I completely forgot about the service and realized on the slopes that the slats were slowing down rather than gliding. So it was back to square one! With a few pallets, friends and hot wax, we now make the boards really smooth again. The next adventure can come - but this time with speed!

Into Altai with French pro snowboarder Victor Daviet: yurts, camels, deep snow, and a Super-8 camera. A conversation about snowboarding, risk management, simplicity, and the kind of adventure that stays with you long after the trip ends.

The second article of the series takes a look into the struggles of choosing materials for more circular skis and snowboards, as well as the recycling of equipment at the end of it‘s lifespan.

Mid-November - and everyone is starting to feel the coming winter. My highlight of the week is a street video from Montreal in which Ed Joy shines. We also discover new parallels between baking and skiing and get some life wisdom from legend Glen Plake: it's about living loud enough to feel it, raw enough to remember it, and brave enough to keep doing it - even when the world tells you to back off.

Winter has already left its first traces in the mountains, so the first runs have already been collected. But we can hardly wait for the coming winter either. After introducing the new "Snow-/Splitboard" category last season and launching the new "Splittie of the Week" series, we are looking forward to a new season with exciting content!

When looking for suitable destinations for a ski touring vacation, Peru is unlikely to come to your mind. But the Cordillera Blanca, not far from the equator, is home to the largest tropical glaciers in the world. Our goal: to climb and ski down some of the impressive five and six thousand meter peaks "by fair means" - i.e. without guides and porters. In the second part of our adventure report, we continue through long ascents, with heavy backpacks, in thin mountain air - past imposing glaciers, in the midst of complete solitude and untouched nature. A continuation of Part I, characterized by disappearing tents, endless ascents and challenging conditions.

Several pairs of skis, little space and a constant mess? Anyone familiar with this will appreciate order in the ski room. With a little craftsmanship, this problem can be easily solved - with a homemade ski rack that not only keeps things tidy, but is also practical and space-saving.

Level Up is a freeride event for women, created by Marion Hearty, four-time winner of the Freeride World Tour and winner of Natural Selection 2024. At the end of January, I had the honor of taking part in the Freeride Girls event. This is my report on the first edition of Level Up.

Having unfortunately not found the time in recent winters to travel to the beautiful mountains of the Western Alps as often as I used to, contact with La Grave has also become somewhat more sporadic. So I was all the more pleased when we finally decided to spend a few days in La Grave again this year. But I was all the more shocked when Anne, Guillaume's girlfriend, replied to my email to him to say that he had died unexpectedly last winter. It's been a week and a half now and I'm still collecting my thoughts.

In the ninth edition of Videos of the Week, we celebrate Joona, the well-deserved 'Freeskier of the Year,' and take a look at creative film projects from the French Freeski team. We also join Torstein Horgmo on a psychedelic snowboarding journey through Baldface and Japan. On the competition side, we finally have fresh new Games of SLVSH, and the X Games kicked off with its first day full of exciting action. A week full of highlights for all Freeski and Snowboard fans!

Winter is just around the corner and with it, more and more new projects from the ski film scene are being launched. Some have been announced for a long time and hyped up with trailers, others are simply uploaded. In this section we would like to present you a weekly selection of videos or films that are particularly worth seeing. I will also be looking at smaller projects - the ones that may fall under the radar but are hidden treasures. I'm sure many of you will discover the big productions by yourselves. Have fun watching and start dreaming of snow now!