We caught up with Leo to talk to him about his Chamonix childhood, and how he went about moving from the fast paced and flowing skiing found on the FWT circuit to the controlled, more defensive, skiing that’s required on the exposed north faces of the Alps.
After some years, after some trips around, always whenever I came back, I was always like ‘Okay, that was a cool trip’ – I really enjoy going somewhere – but there’s nothing like some really playful days at home, it’s different to what we can find somewhere else.
Since I was young I had the opportunity to ski with my eldest brother, to have some good times out there with other skiers and local Chamonix heroes, so that’s been a good thing for me as I had the opportunity to go into some really cool places ever since I was quite young.
All those training sessions are also important for the second part of the season because when you are able to jump above the ice and do some drop into some really gnarly zones, into the north face (of the Midi), or whatever, it’s like oh shit, my skis are stronger than they’ve ever been before and now I’m able to repeat something that we were doing in the freeride zones and bring it into the steep terrain.
不,第二。也许[今年]马洛里是我最喜欢的下降。这是我从小就一直在寻找的那个人,因为我一直将吊船带到Midi的Aiguille du Midi的顶部。
多年来,我一直在寻找马洛里(Mallory)。在我滑雪之前,我有机会攀登它。我于2017年1月1日与一个朋友攀登,我告诉他今年必须滑雪[2017],所以我在2017年第一次滑雪。今年我做了同样的事情,我爬了几天after Verbier, then I skied it in June – it’s a pretty cool line. The Mallory is definitely symbolic for me.
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