Keeping it funny (and real) in the mountains with Katie Burrell

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.

Resilience through life changing trauma in the mountains

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 …

When life risks go wrong in the great outdoors

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 hav…

Vulnerability in the face of mountain mortality

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 m…

Courage, how to find it on and off the mountain

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.

Precious Leader Woman – snowboarder Spencer O’Brien’s Indigenous story in film

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…

What are you so afraid of? Fear on the mountain.

SnowsBest chats with sports psych Taylor Rapley, The North Face athlete Janina Kuzma, Aussie Olympic coach Kate Blamey and mogul legend Britt Cox who reveal their biggest fears and how they manage them. This episode is supported by The North Face.