Presented by the Rocky Mountaineers
Ski: The Greatest Ski Tour of All Time
The Rocky Mountaineers and Missoula Avalanche invite you to join us for an evening screening of “Ski.”
This film offers a thoughtful look at human-powered travel in the backcountry, following Nikolai Schirmer and his longtime friend Vegard as they work toward a shared goal in the mountains.
Raffle tickets will be available from 7:30 to about 8:00 p.m., with the film starting at 8:00. Stay after the show for a raffle and some great prizes.
We hope you’ll join us for a relaxed evening with friends and our local mountain community.
Words from the creators:
The hyper commercial world of professional freeride skiing collides with the purist misanthropic ways of the mountaineer, when internationally renowned skier and filmmaker Nikolai Schirmer discovers that his reclusive childhood friend is embarking on a ski tour like nothing done before, and that he’s not planning to tell a soul.
Vegard Rye is training to climb and ski 27 mountains in a single push. The equivalent of running four marathons while climbing Mount Everest from sea level - three times. To be able to achieve this inhuman feat, Vegard is isolating himself from friends and family, living in caves and dedicating his entire existence to better himself.
Nikolai sets out to share his friend’s story with the world, telling everyone it’s «the greatest ski tour of all time», while attempting to appropriate his friend’s snow warrior monk ways of training to lift his own skiing to new heights. Vegard reluctantly lets Nikolai and his team point a camera at him, for old time’s sake. They have a bond forged in suffering years ago, when they were both aspiring skiers.
Nikolai quickly learns it’s easier to sell a story than to live through it though. All the while the bigger question of why he lost his best friend and mountain partner so many years ago lingers.
Please note: This is a rental event, and Roxy member prices do not apply.
This film offers a thoughtful look at human-powered travel in the backcountry, following Nikolai Schirmer and his longtime friend Vegard as they work toward a shared goal in the mountains.
Raffle tickets will be available from 7:30 to about 8:00 p.m., with the film starting at 8:00. Stay after the show for a raffle and some great prizes.
We hope you’ll join us for a relaxed evening with friends and our local mountain community.
Words from the creators:
The hyper commercial world of professional freeride skiing collides with the purist misanthropic ways of the mountaineer, when internationally renowned skier and filmmaker Nikolai Schirmer discovers that his reclusive childhood friend is embarking on a ski tour like nothing done before, and that he’s not planning to tell a soul.
Vegard Rye is training to climb and ski 27 mountains in a single push. The equivalent of running four marathons while climbing Mount Everest from sea level - three times. To be able to achieve this inhuman feat, Vegard is isolating himself from friends and family, living in caves and dedicating his entire existence to better himself.
Nikolai sets out to share his friend’s story with the world, telling everyone it’s «the greatest ski tour of all time», while attempting to appropriate his friend’s snow warrior monk ways of training to lift his own skiing to new heights. Vegard reluctantly lets Nikolai and his team point a camera at him, for old time’s sake. They have a bond forged in suffering years ago, when they were both aspiring skiers.
Nikolai quickly learns it’s easier to sell a story than to live through it though. All the while the bigger question of why he lost his best friend and mountain partner so many years ago lingers.
Please note: This is a rental event, and Roxy member prices do not apply.
Duration: 95 min