FREERIDERS – Close encounters with the world’s top riders

Freeriding is not only a sporting discipline but also a mental one. It is the
mind which pushes a rider to challenge his own limits and face up to an
extreme descent, or set off to explore an unknown region.

It is this interior aspect which comes out most in Freeriders. Eighteen
interviews with skiers and snowboarders, both present and past, who have left
their indelible mark on the world of freeriding and powder. Through their
words and stories the profound reasons emerge which pushed them to face up to
challenges and sometimes even risk their lives to feel free and leave tracks
on their dream slopes. For many of them choosing freeriding was not the
easiest option.

They abandoned a much easier and less dangerous path, in order to express
themselves in a way which represented them most, that is, with freedom and
being in contact with nature. The lines they have tracked are partly the
signature of their soul and their way of being. For this reason, at the end of
the interview, each of them has described a line which best describes
themselves, a line which to all intents and purposes is a symbol, a signature
which has marked the evolution of freeriding.