Eric Pehota

Extreme skier Scott Schmidt as well as thr original 'North Face Extreme Ski Team' are featured in this account of seven years of repeated attempts to be the first to ski the awesome 60 degree North Face of Mt. Robson, the highest peak in Canadian Rockies. Major competitors for the honor of skiing the North Face for the first time were Peter Chrzanowski, Jacques Thibault, and Doug Ward. A film by Beat Steiner and Dave Frazee, starring Scot Schmidt, Trevor Petersen and Eric Pehota.

Ski Peru is the story of two skiers’ dream of descending the untamed slopes of Huascaran, although maybe 'Ski Peru and die' would be a more appropriate title given the tragic climax to Peter Chrzanowski’s Peruvian odyssey. Filmed long before today’s adrenalin charged ski videos on heavy 16mm movie cameras there is no heavy rock soundtrack, no helicopters, no roboskiers mainlining powder at Mach 5.0. It is a slow moving film that explores man’s relationship with the mountain and what it is to ski into the unknown.