Steep (2007)

Mark Obenhaus’s documentary film Steep (2007) is about the sport of extreme skiing and about the men and women who routinely ski the most dangerous slopes in the world, places that people didn’t imagine could be skied at all, until these guys did it.  They ski slopes of 50 degrees and runs that end with a plunge off the side of a mountain.  Often they get dropped onto the top of a mountain from a helicopter.  The documentary begins with the stories of the earliest pioneers and traces the sport to the current best extreme skiers in the world.  The footage is amazing.  Everyone shown in the film acknowledges that they risk their lives every time they go out and one of the guys you will grow to like the best doesn’t live to see the end of the film.  See it on a big screen if you can.