Many downhill lovers have dreamt of whizzing through the ungroomed powder troves of the backcountry. Skiing off of an enormous cliff face while triggering an avalanche probably isn’t part of those dreams — well at least for you saner readers. That’s exactly what happened though to extreme french skiers Matthias Giraud and Stefan Laude in the French Alps while filming a commercial for GoPro’s HD helmet cam. All that’s needed in this video are some guys chasing with machine guns, and you’d have your next Bond alpine sequence ready for the big screen.
Viewfinder is a series of captivating photos taken by the GP crew, culled from the web, dug out of our archives, or submitted by readers.