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Queen of the piste take, Katie Burrell, chats with SnowsBest about Weak Layers, her new feature film set in Palisades Tahoe. What does it take to be funny in the mountains for a living, how to deal with trolls, coaching versus therapy and how to create a cross over film for skiers and non-skiers.
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Trevor Kennison is a legend – the first sit skier to launch into Jackson Hole’s famed Corbet’s Couloir and the first in the world to land a double back flip. His film, Full Circle, took the Banff Mountain Film Festival Grand Prize this year and is a moving tale of post traumatic growth told in the rawest of ways. SnowsBest chats with Trevor about resilience in the face of life changing trauma in the mountains.
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SnowsBest chats about risk with Alex Parsons (who is lucky to be alive). The snowboard instructor and backcountry guide was bitten by a deadly mulga king brown snake in outback Western Australia on a remote rafting trip. With no chance of rescue for 12 hours in the dark of night, she should not have survived. Alex speaks publicly for the first time in this emotional and life affirming interview.
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SnowsBest chats with Kieren Gaul, former ski racer turned snow entrepreneur and founder of North America’s largest cat ski operator, now facing terminal stage IV bowel cancer. He reveals how his mountain learnings are helping him with the hardest life lesson of all, mortality. We take Kieren down memory lane to the old school days of Thredbo, discuss the horrifying avalanche he experienced in Canada and how writing his memoirs, Growth Truth Adventure Love, has stopped him in his tracks.
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SnowsBest chats with Mike Williams, snowboard coach for FIS WC Crystal Globe snowboarder Valentino Guseli and FIS World Champion Mia Brookes on how mindfulness can conquer fear and how to find your courage on and off the slopes.
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SnowsBest chats with Cassie de Colling, the film maker behind world champion snowboarder Spencer O’Brien’s Precious Leader Woman documentary.

The doco tells the rollercoaster tale of First Nation O’Brien’s international competitive journey as she wrestles physical and mental hardship and discovers her Indigenous identity.

This episode is supported by The North Face.

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