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brian
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, well said and couldn't agree more. Looking forward to watching it tonight.
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Film arrived today, and I've just finished watching it. Interesting thread. Seems to me it's a matter of degree - who is qualifed to determine when "challenging" skiing becomes "selfish". I'm a recreational skier, far from "extreme", but I have skied couloirs where any fall might be "serious". I've also walked on steep, icy pavements, where a slip could have put me under a bus. Do either of these activities make me selfish?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Challenging and selfish is a matter of opinion and that's of course the stock in trade of most conversations on and off line. If legal to do so, anyone can have and express a valid and useful opinion on anything whether they have experience of that exact thing or not, as long as they have a reasonable understanding of the concept. There are no rights one way or the other in this respect.
Truly extreme skiing is dangerous, life-threatening even when performed by true experts. I'd expect that anyone would reasonably acknowledge this, including the experts themselves. To do it largely because you want to when those close to you depend on you imo is selfish. To do it out of perceived necessity occupationally is at best unlucky. In all other cases, knock yourself out!
To the informed, the great majority of off piste that's skied daily doesn't even come close to this category and knowledge/skills/experience are used to mitigate against the risk level for any individual exponent, who will then decide what is acceptable. Here too people can be selfish or get it wrong, but critically the consequences are milder.
Of course on another level I'm not unhappy that there are people out there who want to do these things as it pushes back the frontiers of the possible and knowledge/skills are acquired that may gradually make that direction of endeavour safer, more achievable and probably more diverse. And it makes for good video. Just rather them than me, thank you!
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To the informed, the great majority of off piste that's skied daily doesn't even come close to this category and knowledge/skills/experience are used to mitigate against the risk level for any individual exponent, who will then decide what is acceptable. Here too people can be selfish or get it wrong, but critically the consequences are milder.
