Just watched this last night and thoroughly enjoyed it, although I am biased because Seth Morrison is my favorite skier ever. The guy is so mysterious, and doesn't himself provide a ton of insight into why he does what he does, but I think it's because it's simple....he loves to ski. I think it's similar to the case of the Pettit's, without a dad growing up, the mountain serves as their "father."
This movie is not geared towards park rats.
The Chamonix trip was super duper gnarly and by far one of the most technical ski trips I have ever seen in a movie. These guys were rappelling 100m down, switch ski rappelling again to the line, skiing the face, rappelling another 50m, and skiing the couloir below the face. In other words there were several lines where if they fell, it was 100% chance of death as they would have tumbled straight off a 100m+ cliff or wall of ice onto relatively hard snow with less than a foot of fresh powder. Remember Sean Pettit's deathly line from The Way I See It? It was at least as gnarly, especially with the potentially killer slough they were generating.
I liked this movie because it had some crazy, crazy lines, fantastic commentary, and gave some good perspective on being a professional skier. Seth admitted he missed the days when he could ski without the camera, that he could have just been a simple ski bum instead of a pro skier, and that pro skiing has become far more dangerous than ever before for the sake of the camera. It made me far less envious or jealous of pro skiers, and happy to be a ski "bum." I highly recommend this movie, rent it on iTunes.
