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YOSHIRO HIGAI PHOTOGRAPHY.
Johan Olofsson98

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Dave Swany


Johan .jpgOden's Ladder was the most memorable run from my 10 years of guiding the best riders in the world through the mountains of the Chugach with VHSG. Johan and I stood on the peak opposite the face shoveling an LZ for a run that we were repeating and shooting "on-slope" shots. I saw the line on what everyone thought was an unridable face. Johan and I looked it over and he agreed that it might go. Hatchet and the boys were not so sure, but were stoked to give it a closer look in the heli. After our fly-by we were sure, but the pilot could not find an LZ on the summit, so we landed on the neighboring peak and Johan and I hiked up the back side. Once at the top, I set up a belay anchor and belayed Johan to the edge to check the drop-in. He liked it, so away he went. In the shot you can see me on the peak (I look like a rock and was about as cold as one) and Johan on his fourth turn/free-fall.
My descent was pretty hairy, as I could not feel my legs from the knees down after the sweaty hike and cold belay position. Victoria Jealouse was at the bottom and pretty much talked me through the line on the radio. Frozen feet and a heavy guide pack on a super steep committed line make for a memorable experience.
Higai truly captured the essence of the moment with this photo!

Dave Swany
Pro Skier

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In such taking a picture, it was also true at all that there was something not made something satisfactory though the impossible one was after the agreement I one. Taking a picture ..kick.. safely is memorized and such an ill feeling also memorizes lost in the finish base by word "It is the highest to make up with a united effort one the one" of return Johann. The appearance of the rider who looks down from the brim is a super-reality of the average in non-daily life. It cannot explain thespectacle that trajects the lens of EOS and is developed there by the mouth at all. _MG_0063.JPG
*Johann Olofsson who stands in a dignified manner on the mountain named “ Odends ladder". The brim to which a talented cinematographer and the Tom day of Standard Films are taken with me turns slowly around the surroundings. "The tying food is cool when looking down at the slope from the brim" tex is always hot and the head is crossed the talked word. I was frantically cutting the shutter. It is feelings like seeing the movie. '10 second........3.2.1..' Johann was parted with the life rope, rolled in the ladder of 60 degrees or more, and fell. The slipping like the ogre in Johann was named, and it was piled up and the name was named with [bunhikai] [**] * Odens ladder ", saying that the god 'Odin' of Northern Europe of Greek myths. It is possible to see with TB7 (Standard Films).
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