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I completely enjoyed this film documentary. The documentary seemed very focused with little wasted footage or unnecessary dialog. The filmmakers have gone to great lengths to get the pictures and video that heralded the start of what is now called "Extreme Skiing". The clips are all backed up with current commentary from the (surviving) pioneers that are depicted in them. It's fascinating to hear about what they were thinking as they poured down 50+ degree slopes in Europe and then the US. As one skier put it, these were guys who were thinking: "I wonder what else I can do on skis". Bill Briggs, who first descended the 13,370 foot Grand Teton in 1971, opens and closes the film much like John Glenn narrating about the romance of his brush with outer space. They continually pushed the envelope for themselves and showed the rest of the world how incredible humans can be. From the steeps of Chamonix to the Chugach in Alaska, the scenery and the dialog is incredible. A wonderful, informative film for skiers and non-skiers alike. I'm going to give this film a 4/5 for it's utter brilliance in presentation. IF YOU LIKE MY REVIEW, PLEASE DON'T HESITATE TO LET ME KNOW BY VOTING. THANKS!Read full review
Riding Giants, Stacy Peralta's brilliant documentary about the history of big wave surfing is a masterpiece, but Steep seems fragmented by comparison. Maybe this is just because I don't know the history of extreme skiing to the same degree as surfing, but the people involved seemed humorless, uninteresting, and lamely philosophical (I can't count the number of times "ultimate extreme" was uttered). It went through a bit of the history, but a lot of it seemed really overly dramatized and taken out of context--it was hard to understand how the various innovations strung together and gave no real insight into the people involved, because they themselves were so helpless to explain everything (both because of the intensity of their experiences and their pseudo-philosophical nonsense). It's much better to let the footage do the talking for such things and the footage was indeed beautiful and for the most part palm-sweat-inducing, but I was left thinking that I would have rather just rented an extreme skiing documentary. I don't know, if you're really into extreme skiing, you'll probably enjoy it, but if you are looking for an adrenaline-fueled visual feast, stick to riding giants or other extreme skiing docs (most of which are incredible to watch).Read full review
UNBELIEVABLE Skiing, THESE Guys are C R A Z Y !!!!
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This is one of the better films on skiing ever made.
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Truly scary skiing - shows the history of steep skiing from Sylvain Saudan to Doug Coombs
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