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I can even name that skier!... a certain Mike Jardine (at the time Marketing Director of Europa Sports, distributors of Nordica / Look / Dynastar / Kerma, circa 1986-87, photographer almost certainly Jess Stock, location almost certainly Chamonix Valley somewhere or maybe Espace Killy). Well, you did ask!
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Actually... come to think of it... from the deep recesses of my mind I think kitenski is right. And I also seem to remember that this was taken before the lifts were installed. It is Mike Jardine though.
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The clue is in:
II wrote:
I know this one
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Here's my pic looking at Ben Nevis from 13th May 1994!!
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Frosty the Snowman, hey, it's a little early for me.
The other interesting thing about the pic is that there was illicit heli-skiing going on.. the heli pilots working on the lift installation were happy to drop certain people at the top for a ski down (I think a few pairs of skis changed hands).
kitenski, No, that's definitely La Grave
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Here's my version:
... and there's some brilliant footage of some guys boarding the mountain in the foreground (Carn Mor Dearg) here:
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Zowee, I thought it had to be somewhere surprising (at least to those who tend to dismiss Scotland,and there are sadly quite a few) - the more I see/hear about Nevis Range the more I want to try it!
For my sins I've done the East coast but never the west, Nevis looks to have some quite stunning terrain - gotta do it!
You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
My favourite of the high entry into the back bowl (or back coire).
Wow, I love that video!
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Well done everyone who got it. I can see it was a bit too easy. The photographer was Ronnie Weir.
This is a tad harder. As a clue it is another classic ski shot and a first, or is that, second descent?
So: country, mountain, face, skier and photographer for five points.
I won't ask for ski brand although I suspect they are Dynastars.
Good skiing style don't you think? Left arm ready and head looking down the fall line.
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davidof,
You need to repost that on.e it is rotated through 90 degrees.
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Tarvel...? which would put it somewhere in Chamonix...maybe up around the Cosmiques
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?
JT wrote:
Tarvel...? which would put it somewhere in Chamonix...maybe up around the Cosmiques
Ok so you've got the country and the massif (Mont Blanc). The shot is from around the time Tardivel was making his first descents but the skier in the photo died climbing.
rjs, It looks like Vallencant, only the lack of a headband and checked shirt has put me off posting that
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rjs,
I thought he (PV) was avalanched which stopped me suggesting him.... I guess I should have googled it
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ahh you are very good, Vallencant it is. Arno is close with the location but not close enough... and who is it behind the camera? PV claimed a moral first descent... because he climbed the route but he and his partner were overflown by another skier who made the first run... back in the days when l'heliski was legal in France.
the photo does suffer from what the French call penchage
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davidof,
I'll guess Shapiro..on the basis that the set-up of the pic would have taken a budget and he was the best around and in Verbier at that time...??
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davidof, grande pillier d'angle? or is it something on the brenva face? hmmmmm
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couldn't resist looking it up - according to google it's the Couturier Couloir on the Aiguille Verte (which isn't really that close to the Peuterey Arete )
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Ok, see if you can get this one... where was I and who was next to me in this extreme situation...
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You know it makes sense.
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Bode Swiller, I've seen wurst.
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Here is the Vallencant photo rotated 22º - it could probably have been a few more (I wasn't sure what the top right should look like) -Does it look about right?:
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i guess the photog would have been anselme baud on the basis that they skied the route together
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
JT, I reckon one of us earns the right to post the next "guess where" pic
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JT wrote:
Arno,
So, do we have all the answers ...and what's the prize?
Yes, excellent detective work. C'mon then, someone post a pic.
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Here is the Vallencant photo rotated 22º - it could probably have been a few more (I wasn't sure what the top right should look like) -Does it look about right?:
It actually looks a lot better like that.
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Dont know if this is a skiing photo as I have only got one ski on but it did persuade me to get a GPS!
Clue, I could have seen PV from here if not for the fog.
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