location Svalbard, Norway

location Svalbard, Norway

Glacier camping, midnight polar bear watch shifts, 40 degrees below 0, and the only full solar eclipse to be visible from snowy mountains for 25+ years .

Salomon Freeski TV invited me to Spitzbergen, Svalbard. We rode snowmobiles with thousands of pounds of equipment, established a base camp, and climbed and skied untouched mountains. Polar bears kept an eye on us.

But my favorite part was standing on a windy ridge at 11am alongside my friends Cody Townsend and Chris Rubens, wearing those funny 3D glasses made for staring at the sun, and watching the moon pass perfectly in front of it.
Skis on our feet, we did what we know best: skied beneath a full solar eclipse.

ACCOLADES

cover, Powder Magazine photo AnnualJanuary 2016

cover, Powder Magazine
photo Annual
January 2016

  • Best Film: Snow Sports, Banff Mountain Film Festival, 2015

  • Photo of the Year, Powder Awards, 2015

  • 5 Point Film Festival, 2016

  • international film festivals

  •          Spirit of Adventure, 5Point Film Festival, 2016

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GO BEHIND THE SCENES ON THE INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA FEATURE AT http://freeskitv.salomon.com/en/episodes/eclipse WINNER 'Best Snow Sports Film' - 2015 Banff Mountain Film Festival WINNER 'Best Visual Film' - 2015 Kendal Mountain Film Festival WINNER 'Best Mountain Culture Film' - 2015 Whistler Film Festival It was a ridiculous idea from the start.

FILM & MULTIMEDIA EXPERIENCE available now - http://freeskitv.salomon.com/en/episodes/eclipse It was a ridiculous idea from the start. Travel to the edge of the earth to see one of the planet's rarest events- a total solar eclipse in the Arctic.

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MULTIMEDIA EXPERIENCE

PUBLISHED

Featured
Sliver Powder Magazine web/print feature Issue 44.5 January 2016

Sliver
Powder Magazine
web/print feature
Issue 44.5
January 2016

Skiing the Solar Eclipse in Arctic Norway National Geographic Adventure web feature 17 November 2015

Skiing the Solar Eclipse in Arctic Norway
National Geographic Adventure
web feature
17 November 2015

COLD | Experiencing Svalbard Goal Zero Solar Life web article 22 May 2015

COLD | Experiencing Svalbard
Goal Zero Solar Life
web article
22 May 2015

Eclipse Sidetracked Magazine web/print feature Volume Six March 2016

Eclipse
Sidetracked Magazine
web/print feature
Volume Six
March 2016

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