Speedriding

Two contests this week: the Nendaz Backcountry Invitational and Kings & Queens in Corbet's. You can call them spectacles. Speedriding pilots in the French Alps, my favorite filmmaker and rider Jacob Callaghan in Japan and a short film from the perspective of parents who raised their son in the mountains. Plus fresh snow in the Alps. Get some inspiration - but watch out for your safety. There is also a nice video of a guide in Chamonix.

Every year... the European Outdoor Film Tour comes down to Earth's cinemas and has been doing so for over two decades. Each time it doesn't bring Christmas presents with it, but beautiful adventures by and with interesting characters who have been out and about in the snow, on the rocks, in the air or elsewhere. This year there are exciting stories from Alaska and Switzerland, but also inspiring films such as the one about Sheri, the 50-year-old dressmaker, or Elladj, who does his ice-artistic laps on frozen lakes in the Canadian wilderness. It's definitely worth taking part and watching! And it's definitely worth reading on and winning!

Marco Milanese is an alpine mountain guide, a modern adventurer and certainly a local legend in Friuli-Venezia-Giulia. The variety of his mountain activities is astonishing, based upon alpine climbing, reaching towards highlining and base jumping, but also incorporating skitouring, freeriding and speedflying. In this interview we try to find out about Marco and how he manages such a variety of mountain activities, how he deals with risk and what he was doing last winter.

Roger Fischer, our Conditions Reporter of the Week, writes guidebooks and finds freeriding best when he can combine it with his second passion, paragliding.

The second part of Arc'teryx's Commit Webseries is about things you could theoretically do.

The Warren Miller Film Tour will be touring Germany again from the second of November. This time, the 66th Warren Miller film presents the fringe groups of winter sports: speedriding, powsurfing, but also real classics such as monoskiing. Of course, the classic powder runs through Alaska, Utah and Chamonix are not neglected either.

Together with Mathias Roten, Ueli Kestenholz founded the project "Playgravity" and published the first part in 2007. After the death of his good friend and speedflying partner in 2008, Ueli asked himself how he should continue. He found a charismatic group in many of his friends from different areas of extreme sports, with whom the sequel, "playgravity 2 - the other side", was created.

Sammy C. is known for his freestyle action. As you would expect, the same can also be seen in "his" film with him as the main protagonist.