I'm watching breathtaking video footage of a skier hucking air off 30-meter cliff then making smooth carved turns down a deadly 55-degree rock face. The last time I hucked and tucked a 55-degree rock face I woke up just before falling into a crevasse.
But one girl's bad dream is another man's, uh, job. Teton Gravity Research, a film company in it's sixth year of making extreme-sports films, isn't about people like you and me who curse every time we have to climb sideways down those steep stairs in our old, rickety Japanese houses. No sirree, the athletes in these movies huck, tuck and do a few flips out of bed every morning. Maybe we just need to put on skis to get down those stairs.
If you're not interested in slapping on a pair of skis and tucking down your stairway, but wouldn't mind feeling what it's like, then TGR's extreme ski/snowboarding flick called "Further," released last fall, will get your adrenalin running. Running for shelter, that is.