What's up guys? Hennie vJ over here, for the better part of the last few years I have been lucky enough to somehow manage to get an invite to the West Coast Sessions. Newschoolers always delivers with putting on such a kickass week for everyone who gets there and always caps it off with a blast at the end with the open sessions for everyone. Unfortunately (sort of) this year I couldn't make it because of the fact that I squeezed my way into a ski expedition all the way over in Nepal. Kris Erickson and Jamie Laidlaw, both insanely badass mountaineers, are attempting the first ever ski descent of the Lhotse couloir. It is one of the 4 8,000 meter peaks that are left un-skied in the world...pretty cool stuff really. Currently I'm writing this from a tent in the Mt. Everest basecamp. I left the states around April 5th and am probably not getting back till early June. 2 months of work to ski 1 line....so yeah, full on crazyness! I feel like I am the luckiest person in the world right about now. Anyway, felt like sharing the adventure with you all and hoping that NS could rally up and get our videos some views out on the web! So without further waiting, here you boys and girls go with the first video dispatch! Tomorrow morning around 6am I am headed through the Khumbu icefall for my first time up to camp 1 and eventually camp 2 for my first rotation. When I get back the second dispatch should be live already and rest assured I'll be posting it up on here for all you guys to check out. If everything goes according to plan, the video dispatches should be dropping around every Wednesday/Thursday. Hope you all enjoy and see a bit different side of the skiing world out there!
http://vimeo.com/23221639
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Anyone want to embed this video if that doesn't work? Thanks!
