Steep [Blu-ray]

Steep [Blu-ray] Review

A must have for any skiing or outdoor enthusiast. This isn't your typical warren miller or matchstick ski movie (they're great as well), its more of a documentary style film with interviews from skiing legends such as Doug Coombs, Shane McConkey, Glen Plake, etc... What I loved about this movie was how they explored the emotions that drive these athletes to seek such extreme skiing and take such enormous risks. The film shows the glamorous side of extreme skiing, but it also hits home on the risk side of the sport and how nearly all those interviewed had lost a good friend in the mountains. Some of those interviewed eventually lose their lives as well. I can't recommend this film highly enough...for those of you wondering why you love to ski, this could be the answer you've been looking for.

Steep [Blu-ray] Overview

Warning: You're about to experience the most breath taking, exhilarating and inspirational ride of your life. The world's best skiers go beyond their dreams to conquer the steepest runs ever faced. From the sheer cliffs of Grand Teton, to the treachery of Chamonix France, to the untouched Alaskan peaks of Valdez, these extremers sacrifice their lives for a thrill but what a thrill it is. Fantastically beautiful images of the most magnificent peaks on the globe along with devastating avalanches and fatal spills only serve to push them harder. But you're about to discover -- not everyone who goes up the mountain -- returns.

Steep [Blu-ray] Specifications

Thrilling and spectacular, Steep is a mesmerizing documentary in the Warren Miller mold about extreme skiing, but with more emphasis on the drive and psychology of the adrenaline-hooked athletes involved. A number of skiers are captured in archival and original footage braving the odds against surviving runs down astonishingly steep, dangerous slopes. Among the subjects is Bill Briggs, who climbed in 1971 to the top of Grand Teton in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and skied down, an unprecedented effort echoed by Europeans who later did the same thing down the French Alps in Chamonix. Doug Coombs, who twice won the World Extreme Skiing Championship, is also profiled and speaks honestly about the possibility of dying for the sake of living life to the fullest as a thrillseeker. Written and directed by Mark Obenhaus, a producer for several of the late Peter Jennings’ television news specials, Steep is visually gorgeous, and literally breathtaking whenever a skier is seen barely outracing an avalanche nipping at his heels. Steep attempts, somewhat, to get inside the heads of the pros who do this sort of thing, but it is hard for many of the subjects to articulate what they feel. It’s best just to be knocked out by their deeds and let the fantastic visuals in Steep speak for themselves. --Tom Keogh

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Recommend : American Spice