Hugo harrison skier biography

He became a film star with iconic companies like Teton Gravity, Matchstick Productions and France's Nuit de la Glisse.
Tony Harrington aka Harro is a legendary Aussie ski, snowboard, and surf photographer with roots in the sports that go back 40 years.
The Powderwhores tag along with Hugo Harrison dropping cliffs in British Columbia.

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´Choose Your Adventure´ is a globe-trotting character study with plenty of action

Adventure filmmakers Jonah and Noah Howell get around.

Choose Your Adventure, the latest release from Wasatch-based Powderwhore Productions, is a skiing variety show. Cast with a mixed bag of eclectic characters, the audience follows in their quests for brut champagne powder, which, during an underwhelming 2011-2012 ski season, takes them to exotic locations around the world.

In a little over an hour, the audience travels to Cerro Castillo, Chile; La Grave, France; the Antarctic Peninsula; Svalbard, Norway; Mount Foraker, Alaska; British Columbia, Canada; and the Wasatch Mountains in Utah.

“I think people are going to be surprised with the variety, with the diversity, of each segment,” says producer Jonah Howell. “That’s why we went with the choose-your-adventure theme — you never really know what’s coming next.”

But what truly gets the viewer’s attention are the salty backcountry skiers profiled in this film. The Howell brothers create a compelling ski film without Warren Miller’s prod

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Justice Served: Jim Thorpe’s 1912 Gold Medals Restored

In my article “Pro vs. Am” (July-August 2022), I discussed the historic conflict between the concepts of amateurism and professionalism in skiing and Olympic sports. The most tragic victim of this conflict was Jim Thorpe, who won two gold medals in the 1912 Olympic Games in the decathlon and pentathlon, two of the most difficult of all sporting events.

Thorpe dominated the 1912 Olympic Games, with Swedish King Gustav V telling him at the medal ceremonies, “Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world.” However, Thorpe had earned $25 a week while playing semi-professional baseball before his Olympic career, and in 1913, he was stripped of both medals by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) under the era’s strict rules governing amateurism. Historians consider this action to be a combination of racism against Thorpe, who was Native American, and a rigid adherence to the idea of amateurism.

In 1982, the IOC partially restored Thorpe’s 1912 successes by declaring him co-winner of the two medals. But that partial vi

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Senna's Ending, Explained: Inside the True Story of Ayrton Senna - Netflix Tudum

This article contains major character and plot details.

Even knowing that Senna, which chronicles the life, career, and death of iconic Brazilian Formula 1 driver Ayrton Senna (Gabriel Leone), will end in tragedy doesn’t make the limited series any less engaging or its ending any less devastating.

Senna’s six episodes begin as the eventual three-time Formula 1 champion moves to England to compete in Formula Ford; they continue through his fatal accident in Imola, Italy, during the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix. The series tells a fictionalized version of the beloved driver’s ride through life, but many of its elements — from some of the people around him to the lasting impact his death had on safety regulations in Formula 1 — are very real.

Showrunner Vicente Amorim told Queue that he remembers the sense of national pride he felt tuning in to Senna’s races every week while growing up in Brazil. “Every Sunday the country would come together to see this very special man do very special