This Is My Winter
Big mountain snowboard legend Xavier de la Rue is stuck. Hanging 4,391m up on a ridge having dropped one of his pair of ice axes, he's trapped on a sheet of blue ice. Radio-ing down to the film crew he explains, 'I don't think you understand. With only one ice axe there's no way I can get out of here'.
Follow Xavier through a whole season - includes a hair-raising four hour descent down one of the most mythical ski descents in Chamonix, the 3,700m Aiguille de Plan.
Skier and freelance filmmaker Daniel Haberson Butcher says, "You know that when someone is boarding for almost the entire film with an ice axe in each hand that something is a bit different…. And anyone who actually WANTS to go down a near vertical 50 metre couloir of frozen water has some serious skills. To do it twice takes major balls and you’ll soon appreciate why." .
Swiss / French, 2011 (28mins)
Directed By: Guido Perrini, Produced By: Matthieu Giraud, Timeline.
