In this video series, I document my learning experience over the next couple of years as I learn all the skills required to ski my first 6000m mountain (20 000ft.). The ski series will contain 4 types of video episodes. 1 Learning episodes where I pick the brain of experts and share with you. 2 Practise episodes showing how I practise the skills learned. 3 Challenge episodes where I self-impose a challenge to see my physical or technical limits. 4 Objectives where I ski beautiful ski objectives to gain experience while reflecting on what was learned. I hope you will enjoy this journey into the mountains. /Jens

In this episode of into the mountains you get to tag along with me as I practise how to self arrest then me and our filmer Carlos practise how to self arrest using a ski pole and lastly how to self arrest with an ice axe. This ski series contain 4 types of video episodes. 1 Learning episodes where I pick the brain of experts and share with you. 2 Practise episodes showing how I practise the skills learned. 3 Challenge episodes where I self-impose a challenge to see my physical or technical limits. 4 Objectives where I ski beautiful ski objectives to gain experience while reflecting on what was learned. I hope you will enjoy this journey into the mountains. /Jens Nyström

00:00 Intro
01:33 Going up the mountain to practise how to self arrest
03:55 Practise the self arrest position on the ground
04:54 Easy slope | Ice Axe Self Arrest
05:31 Easy Slope | Ski Pole Self Arrest
06:20 Easy Slope | Self Arrest
07:20 Icy 30° Slope | Self Arrest
08:09 Icy 30° Slope | Ice Axe Self Arrest
09:35 Icy 30° Slope | Ski Pole Self Arrest
10:21 Measuring the steepness
13:17 Self Arrest Reflections

In this episode of into the mountains, I learn and practise important skills for ski mountaineering, such as how to rappel into a couloir, also known as "abseiling". The word is german for "ab" meaning down and seil translates to rope which gives the lovely word abseil "to down rope". I also had the pleasure to practise the scary skill of making a snow anchor to abseil off down an ice fall into a lovely little couloir. The last skill I was pleased to get to practise was how to ski cut (to try to release an avalanche to make the couloir safer afterwards). Enjoy.

Daniel Perret Mountain Guide Engelberg, Switzerland
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00:00 Planning the day over the phone
02:07 Into the Mountains
03:25 Meeting Daniel in Engelberg
04:28 Learning how to rappel on skis (abseil)
17:38 Learning how to build a snow anchor to abseil from
26:09 Learning how to ski cut ( Don´t go low, too slow, with nowhere to go)