Peter Chrzanowski

Eight renegade skiers climb and ski Popocatepetl Volcano and make its treacherous first ski descent on Ventorillo Route. A film by Peter Chrzanowski and Jeffrey Bessner,starring Beat Steiner, David Frazee, Peter Chrzanowski, Nigel Protter and John Reed. Shot at Whistler, Snowbird, Taos, Kirkwood and other backcountry locations.

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.

Famous for its beauty, Mount Waddington stands 4019 meters high and has a reputation among mountaineers as a difficult and challenging climb. It is the first time anyone has skied Mt. Waddington. Shot in a documentary style the spectacular film footage is complemented with archival footage from the 1930's. Watch bushwacking pioneers vs modern day extreme skiers tackle Mount Waddington, British Columbia's highest peak.