Warren Miller's Ride

Product Description Ride is awesome adventure snowboarding as you have never seen it! It?s breathtaking adventure in spectacular locations, from the radical drops of Whistler Mountain, British Columbia, to the vertical exhilaration of skiing Russia. Share the thrills of helicopter drops into fresh powder, unimaginable inclines and heart-stopping speeds with 2002 Olympians and world-famous snowriders! Amazon.com This dazzling Ride begins with a bang: A terrific piece about Whistler's avalanche hunters, i.e., a team of explosives experts who begin their days blowing away potentially lethal slides before skiers hits steep slopes. Typical of Miller's films, Ride globetrots through some of the most exciting and exotic places on Earth to capture Hollywood-caliber (and often better) footage of extreme snow-sporting. Among these hot spots, so to speak, are New Zealand (where a high mountain considered holy by the Maori offers some interesting downhill challenges), the North Cascades (particularly a couple of breathtaking sites accessible only by helicopter), France (where a resort harvests ski-able snow from ice-fishing), and Breckenridge, Colorado (where snowboarders bounce along the famous Breckenridge Bumps). A highlight is a ski trip in Russia, where three Americans catch a bus through a war zone to reach, as one fellow puts it, "the top of Europe." --Tom Keogh About the Actor Warren Miller, the greatest innovator and crowd-pleaser in mountain films, has been thrilling audiences for more than half a century. Loyal fans come back every year to hundreds of theaters around the country to experience Miller?s action cinematography from around the globe. These films feature all the essential powder and exotic locales that keep seven out of ten audience members returning annually. And for the newest generation of snowriders, these films never fail to deliver today?s most cutting-edge athletes and action.