"I've never seen anybody ride that fast!" - Endless Winter 3

Well, this is going to be pretty freakin' nice. This is so worth it. So good to be here. I've never seen anybody ride that fast here. I don't know. It's a weird feeling. Almost dying. Welcome to the Free Flip Film Festival! Now we're moving on to a guy who has had a project this winter about having more climate-friendly skiing. Please welcome Nicolai Schirmer. I've reduced my emissions from 40 tons of CO2 per year to 12 tons of CO2 per year. But I still want to make a better ski film. And that's what we're going to talk about tonight. If your skiing has gotten better than last year. Correct. Okay, let's watch the film. So I've been three months on the road now. And it definitely feels good to be heading back home. The mountains are just getting cooler the further north I go. Higher, steeper. And there's definitely a few emissions that I've been keen to get on for a few years now. The boys have been up here for a month already. So I'm going to check in with them, see what we can do. And I'm really going to have to step up my game to reach my climate goals now. So I'm going to try going full vegetarian. Honestly, traveling through Europe now, even if I was doing what I could to keep my emissions down, is really hard. Just burning fuel, you're just emitting so much CO2. And I was really stressing about it. So getting home to clean energy from GE. And now there's one gas station that sells biofuel, which is great. So I could just tank up with biofuel and head out to Lingen. And it's 88% less harmful to the environment. Emissions are low. Are you excited, Christen? Very excited. Mika is here. Kristoffer is here. Jonas is behind the camera. Erik is not here. I missed out on a couple of things. I was super broke after the Alps. I think it was all the beer. Even though it was cheap, it was still expensive when you buy five beers a day. So I had to work a little bit too. Hello, Lingen. Back home. Spring in northern Norway is just chill. You have none of the rush you have in the wintertime because you have so much light. Spring is awesome. Right now we have 20 hours of daylight. It's pretty chill. Camping by the ocean, drinking beer. Nice. We've been chasing so hard this season. It was good to relax more and just enjoy the mountains. Are you ready to drop? Yeah. Okay, ready. The ability this spring has been kind of weird. Dropping in five. We really had to work to get good lines and ski the kind of stuff we wanted to ski. I don't know how many pits we've dug to actually find something safe. That was pretty good. Yeah, it was way better than I expected. Good shots. Me and Nikolaj, we went checking out one face. So we found some sketchy layers here. It's not worth it, I think. I guess we can go check out that west. And I think it was our third or fourth try. I'm ready. We did one line each. Drop in. There's snow. It's very not nice, but nice. Where is Nikolaj going? Is he going to ride all the... ****. ...that exposed thing? Well, he is a professional. Shit. This is not good. You got to clean your feet when you're mountaineering. Hey. It was fun. Glad we did it. Yeah. It was crest heaven. Or crest hell. I don't know how to put it. Another beautiful day in Lingen. Hard snow. Hard people. Today we're doing Swiss Couloir. Lingen Classic. First skied by friends on in 2012. And it's tricky because there's a rappel in there. Or a few rappels, maybe. Windy. Icy. Rocky. Rock and roll. Skiing in Norway is just kind of more sketchy than the Alps in Canada. I think the entrance we want is maybe around that knob. Juna is leading the way. A true gentleman. So we can trip for the family. Like, there's way less snow. Way more rocks. Way more ice. So it's more like adventure skiing, I would say. You go up these big mountains and you want to ride lines where it's okay to fall. And if you're riding a line where it's not okay to fall, you better be pretty damn sure you're not going to fall. Do you want to put up the anchor down there? You can ski first. And I'll meet you down there. Like, I'm happy to ski second if you want to. No, it's... I'm kind of nervous. Okay, cool. So what we'll do is you'll belay me out. Yeah. My life is in your hands, kidza. And I'll go down, feel out the snow. Okay, it feels really good. I'll clip out of the rope. Dropping in three. I'll ski down and start making the anchor. Kind of freaks you out when you know you're skiing right to a big cliff. That's a little drop there. Probably Finn's gear. Or maybe it's Vegard's gear. Either way. I'm happy to see it. And I will use it. Reduce, reuse, recycle. Oh, it slipped. I was so nervous on the top. I was really feeling it. So when I came down, I was like, where is Nikolaj? Did he fall down the cliff? Niko! Yeah? I'm in the safe spot. Okay. Oh, ----. ****, this rock is so fucked. ****. I'll try this crack here. This crack is not a crack. Feels pretty good. Yeah, how was that ski? Interesting. The thing is, that rock is kind of shitty. But it's holding this. Yeah, I think I'm happy. I guess I'll be the one to see if my optimism here is well-founded or not. Stomped it. You should definitely get first track skis, dude. Because you're on this couloir frenzy this season. That was a long couloir. Yeah. My legs were burning at the end. Laxavutindan. It's this big massif on the south end of Lingen. The flash, yeah. I tried it two times earlier. That's been a dream of mine for many years. I've tried it a couple of times and always failed. 600 vertical meters of epicness. Flash, because it looks like flash. It's kind of more like a Y, actually. It's more like a couloir that splits into two. The black rock almost towards the top. I wonder if you can get around that. But the right one looks pretty... From one third down, it looks like it's really fluid riding. You can go fast. Actually, in the 20s, it's better. The earlier, you adopt the I don't care and I don't give a **** attitude. And it makes your life so much easier. I think Krister has already adopted it with his pants here. What are you talking about? Do you give a **** when you wear these? No. But don't show my friends. Mika is a pretty cool guy. I remember him a little bit when I was a kid. And I saw on-board magazines. I can remember some posters. And he has done a lot of descents in Lingen as well. He's been riding there for a long time. Yeah, you're good. Mika is really impressive. He got his emissions down to 5 tons a year. Which is insane. That's half of my goal. I've been reducing and making changes that actually have not changed too much of my life. I was really scared going into this project with having worse skiing by traveling less. No, I don't really need to go anywhere else. And it's just nice to sit and wait for the conditions and then come here. We're in it now. Mika has been trying it too. He got stuffed out. So he's having his revenge. Mika on the revenge train over here. And I saw a lot of places, of course. And I think this is still one of the best places. What's going on there, Krister? I'm checking if we're going to go to the hospital later. Me, Erik and Jonas went up the regular flash. And me and Krister were more on an adventure mission. Because we weren't really sure what to wait for. We're going off into a little side couloir just by the crux. So we'll be at the top in like 10 to 15. Good work. That's epic. Oh, man. So good to be here. The entry is steep. Yeah. It's pretty steep. I can't even see. It does something with your head. I was like, yeah, Nikko, you go first. And I was like, I'm not sure. Maybe you can go first. You can go first. But then we did the rock, paper, scissors. Moment of truth. Is it best of one or one of three? Just the first, best of one. Rock, paper, scissors. Oh, okay. One, two, three, go. Now you know what I'm going to do. Okay, on three. Okay. One, two, three. Krister dropping in five, four, three, two, one. Have fun, Krister. The ride down was really good. Didn't take it too fast. Just riding it controlled, smooth. Not like charging it. It was really good. I'm ready. Okay, dropping in three, one. I think it's cooler to ride with kind of the next generation. And it's really nice to see that there's people really pushing it. And I'm really amazed about the Norwegian shredders. Oh, my God. That was so sick. That was amazing. They charge hard, I would say. I've never seen anybody ride that fast here. Yeah, I'm ready. I think it was the biggest adrenaline rush in maybe two seasons. I'm out. I don't understand it completely because you enjoy making turns, but you don't make so many. You just go straight. I tried to make. I like making turns. We saw the terrain over there. Krister, I don't know where he gets his motivation from. He's never tired. Krister in the field. On our down days, he would still be climbing mountains. And he would bring Jonas. So Jonas would be like, one day we'd be filming, one day we'd be riding. And Krister would be just going like every day. He's never stopping. He's always stoked. I don't get it. I don't think I've ever seen someone that stoked, actually. It's weird. How does he do it? ****, man. He rode it well. I think you're faster than Ode, man. No way, man. Yeah. Ode is Lyngen. It's the video. And we've watched it so many times. And that's on the north side of Stora Laxaltind. So cool to buckle up on the summit of Stora Laxaltind. And we went up there. Roped up. You're in it now, son. Didn't find any weak layers. It was a weird feeling because it was like, there is no reason not to go. It was like, I'm sorry to say it, but we're going down here. It's not good. I guess. You are out there to have fun. But then you're attracted to these lines that can be really not fun if you mess up. It's a thin line, and it's important to be on the right side of it. It's fun. Oh, ----. You kind of have the exposure everywhere. After that cliff, everything gears right at that. It's pretty exposed. For me, the snow looks a little bit hard there. So if you come full speed on the spine, do a turn, and then you fly over the rocks. Okay, Erik. Mika. Enjoy. I'll see you down there. Be safe. I'll be safe. There was this snow field onto this ramp with lots of exposure below it. So I knew I had to keep it together on the ramp. Crossed the skis. Almost fell two times, I think. Super sketchy. That was spicy. Was there no signs of things breaking? No, the snow seemed solid. Really scary to see Erik start sliding over that exposure. But he held on, and he was good. So he was okay. The snow was kind of shitty. Couldn't see anything. I almost died. Erik almost died. Mika is responsible he didn't almost die. But yeah, it's not the best day out there. You win some, you lose some. Yeah. Yeah, I did manage to get my emissions down from 40 tons a year to 12. I offered him meat, but he didn't take it. But you're wondering why I care about this vote in Oslo? Well, the Endless Winter Project is fundamentally a green growth experiment. To decouple the value of my skiing from its environmental impact. This is what GE is doing, you know, by expanding green power. Or how compared to in the 60s, we use 80% less aluminum making a can and 95% less energy when we source that aluminum from return cans instead of the ground. Or applying those same ideas to outerwear production. But it's also entirely new business models. Like my friends Chris and Taylor, who when they're not surfing Mavericks are sending spines or creating sharing economy solutions with AWACO. So that I don't need to keep my entire quiver at home, but rather pick up what I need, when and where I need it. Making the gear four times more productive in its lifetime. So this vote is feeling whether I was able to do the same with my skiing. To do more with less. I think we have a winner. What do you think? It sounds like it. Yeah, it sounds like it. I couldn't have won. What do you think? Are you satisfied with the results, or what were you hoping for? I've been telling myself that I had to fit this mold of what I thought a pro skier was. And I guess this proves that I was wrong. That I just hadn't explored alternatives to flying all around the world, jumping in helis at every opportunity to do my job well. And I've had the best winter of my life, riding with my good buddies. We were so lucky. Good pre-season here in Northern Norway. The best January in Tyrol since the 60s. How many times have I been here? Yeah. This past week, or past eight days? Yeah. I think this will be the fifth. Fifth time out. Or not up Tomasvenda, but this part. And we have Eivind with us today. After Krister broke up with his girlfriend, we took him in. And after that, we're friends. He just slept on our couch for, like, forever. A rad crew, 9,000. So cool! Okay, so my line is pretty much just fall line from here. That was fun! I'm having a second kid, a boy, in one month. What do you think their snowboarding will be like? I'm hopeful that they will not go pro. Especially in the future, where everybody is pushing it even harder. Peace out, Flash! Hey, drop the mic!