©NISSAN OUTDOOR GAMES/T. SHU - rider: Babs Charlet

A lot went on in Chamonix last week and this week-end, with the French resort hosting both a qualifier for the Freeride World Tour and the Nissan Outdoor Games. Freeride and extreme sports are an integral part of the culture in Chamonix and we at SnowBroader just had to check out the action in the resort and on the mountain.
The Freeride de Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, took place on the ‘Pentes de l’Hôtel’ – the Brevent ski area – and saw Aurelien Routens from France and Swiss Nathalie Zenklusen logically win in snowboard.
While the freeriders where doing their thing, the 5 teams engaged in the Nissan Outdoor Games where moving around the Chamonix valley to put together a 5 minutes movie. On saturday and after filming for one week, the world’s best extreme sports athletes in ski, snowboard, mountaineering, paragliding and BASE jump and exceptional production teams turned in their films! Among the snowboarders participating to the event were Austrian Rudi Kröll, local hero Babs Charlet, Jonas Emery and Eric Themel from team Insomnia, Timo “Tike” Aho from Finland, and Xtreme the Verbier winner turned Base jumper Géraldine Fasnacht. Let’s just say that the teams enjoyed incredible conditions during the week and that in this case action speaks louder than word.

Check out the movies from the 5 teams engaged in the Nissan Outdoor Games, and take the opportunity to discover the totally crazy stuff that the speed flyers, acrobatic paragliders, base jumpers, wing suiters and of course extreme skiers and snowboarders do. This is another league, next level madness!

Here’s a highlight of the event in a 3 minute video. Breathtaking.

The teams surprised and impressed the public of various backgrounds by producing not simply amazing sports images as expected, yet true short films.
Team Argon won the Golden Peak, THE award of the Nissan Outdoor Games. This is their video entitled “The Devils Ride”:

Team Golgoht won the Jury’s Special Award.
Team Ride the Planets won the Best Sports Sequence.
For the videos from all the teams check out this link.

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