China: A Skier's Journey
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Skiing as sport is in it’s infancy in China, a phenomenon of the country’s exploding middle class. As a means of survival, however, it is thousands of years old, a stone age hunter-gatherer technology born in the Altai mountains where China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan
and Siberia merge. On a vast trajectory that spans 11,000km of Northern China, Chad Sayers and Forrest Coots touch down into the rich past and dizzying future of these two respective Chinese ski cultures. As one rapidly expands, they find the other is at risk
of disappearing.
Presented by Arc'teryx in association with Gore-Tex.
Visit:
askiersjourney.com to learn more.
Director / Producer / Camera / Editor: Jordan Manley
Featuring: Chad Sayers & Forrest Coots
Associate Producer: Laura Yale
Field Producer: Jeffrey Oliveira /
skichina.com
Script Consultants: Daniel Irvine, Chad Manley
Additional Sound Design and Mix: Jeff Yellen
Motion Graphics: Blair Richmond
www.arcteryx.com
Although I was born in china this is my first time to know the skiing history of China and how skis are made in their very original way. Hope one day I'll be skiing in those beautiful mountains in China.
Very proud to see this as a Chinese skier. I'll keep supporting arc'teryx, hope you can bring more videos in the future.
I feel proud to support company that creates such films.
Amazing story Jordan. With each episode, it just gets better and better.
Thanks Ray! By the way, this is completely last minute but the film will be playing in Boston tomorrow night: www.bostonwinterfilmfestival.com/thursday-october-20
We also may* be coming to NYC in Nov but I'll keep you posted on that :)
Jordan, In Germany at the moment for the Frankfurt Book Fair though I will let me Boston friends know.... Debate night in the US and for me, wide awake at 3ish in Germany and seeing this message, made my day. Let me know about Nov.. Hopefully it is not while I am in the UK.... The Alba clan would love to meet you!
Stoked to see the Altai mountains in this! I've been wanting to ski out there for a long time; such a stunning part of the world.
Jordan Manley's film making is incredible, absolutely love it
This is a great piece of work. So glad to find this gem
I heard there’s now high speed training connecting Altay to Urumuqi and the rest of China. And from China to Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Wonderful video. I hope the local people in Altay can keep their traditions - even as many of the young will move to cities... But it is absolutely a good thing that limits were put in place by the Chinese government against cutting fresh trees and over hunting wild animals. China suffered terribly ecologically in the 20th century. They need to regrow as much forest as they can - for the good of the whole planet.
truly beatifull story told just as beatifully
A very important documentary of the present slipping into the past. Thank you.
Love the tale of the hunt. Only shots of the land as you tell us (to use our imaginations) of how the traditional skiers tracked their prey.
Beautiful work. Glad your taking ski films to the level of cultural ski portraits. Encouraging the bond between why/how we ski with our modern culture.
Awesome film!
Beautiful shots and a lovely story of skis.
What is the music playing at 8:30. It is, like the entire video, amazing.
这个系列终于又来了，论短片 我只服jordan
我本来想把这个搬到墙内，但是腾讯告诉我审核未通过，你有什么办法吗？😂
哈哈 试试youku啊
what a masterpiece!
Amazing work!
잘 봤습니다. 감동적이네요. amazing job.
Great film.... well done ;)
Nice film!
Amazing video but the aspect ratio it's shot in almost ruins it.
Did these two guys just took powder skis as their visit trip equipment? even at groomed ski resort?
Do India next PLEASEEEEE!!!!!!!
Hahahaha "Jackson Hole, 2 hours North of Beijing" China even has knock off ski resorts??
Do you think all the place names in the USA are original, and not copied from Europe and elsewhere? 😂
Just the new names alone: New York, New England, New Jersey, New Hampshire etc. Manchester, Plymouth, Oxford, Bristol, Chester, Dover.. Not to mention places named after other countries like Ireland, Holland, Belgian, Norwegian, Czech and YES, even China - Pekin, Illinois, Canton, New York, Nankin Township, Michigan and so on.... So original huh!
If you want to see knockoffs, go to Vegas: Cesar Palace, Venetian, ..
they should of skied into north korea
This was such a sick film! It was filmed absolutely beautifully and the music was amazing! I am headed to Chongli next week and I can't wait now!
Wish u take care of urself cause the strong wind in CHONGLI
A very great contrast to arc'teryx's video on skiing in Japan. As someone that has lived in both countries these videos really resonate with me! Well done!
Breathtaking film! What an amazing insight into Chinese ski culture!
This is another resason why I love China so much as my most favorite country in the world: Being such an enormous country, it has such a diversity in landscapes, which includes titanic mountain ranges, vast grasslands and steppes, scorching hot deserts, cold boreal forests, and lush, verdant, tropical rainforests. The other reason is the cultural diversity that is native to this country, with various ethnic groups of different cultural and genetic backgrounds inhabiting various regions throughout China. It's such a fascinating country. 🇨🇳
The same reason we love America, as a Chinese.
If anyone is watching this in 2022, as an update, a MASSIVE ski resort has just opened a few km outside Khom, called the Jikepulin International Ski Resort. It opened with over 7700 acres of inbounds terrain, and 4500 feet (around 1375m) of lift-serviced vertical. I’m commenting this because there’s literally zero coverage of it in any international media, general or ski-focused, probably due to the Covid restrictions that China has had. But China is completely opening its borders soon, so sooner or later word of this place is going to trickle out. I’ve been living in China for a few years now, and will be heading there myself in about a week. Stoked out of my mind is the only way to describe myself right now.
AGREED!
There is almost NO coverage of these new areas in Western media. Jikepulin looks absolutely amazing and the powder skiing there must be incredible.
I'm hoping to do a trip in the near future.
@@chrisskiingpowpow thanks for the comment! As an update, yes it was absolutely incredible! It’s quite hard to get to still, and not the most beginner friendly, which somewhat limits the amount of people that visit. There’s also multiple base areas which spread the crowds out.
Jordan Manley is a magician. This work of art is an amazing contribution to the ski community. What an amazing way to portray the history of a classic pass time that millions of people indulge in yearly. Bravo!
I think the narration is a little intense, cool shots and a good story!
This Jeff Yellen guy is just a god, i swear the god, look at is film portefolio, the sound is almost perfect in every creation. Big thumbs up
Congratulations, your films are amazing, I am astonished. Keep the good job, my best wishes!
Amazing.
wow! amazing video! congratulations guys! :)
Very interesting video! Thank you!
Beautifully Hypnotic as always!
This is fucking amazing!
so this is why their jackets are expensive
We also paid for this film.
Amazing cinematography to accommodate a beautiful storyline with a soundtrack done so well, it would be just as intriguing without the voiceover.
Breathtaking material. Outstanding production value. Thank you for sharing a glipms of the experience...
Beautiful, vast -They probably made snow shoes as well. Sleds that could be used to pull game. Very resourceful people, the Chinese.
Great story!
Little late to the party, but nonetheless, here's a photo gallery depicting all the traditional ski hunting of these mountain people!
ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/12/first-skiers/bendiksen-photography#/03-lassoing-elk-hunting-670f.jpg
very
Song at 7:18?
Increíble........ Congratulations to all the crew involved
thanks for sharing such a movie, which told me much that I never knew before as a Chinese skier.
Amazing film, though the Arabic text was not properly rendered.
Spectacular video. Thanks for the post.
Wow! Who knew? Sad and inspiring at the same time. ! Zandy
music?
Beautiful...
Just a detail : the man at the end doesn't speak chinese, but a "turkophonic" language like Uygur, uzbeks or kazakhs.
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there's a mistake in wulahati and norbol's name in arabic as they are switched together. Anyway, amazing video, i love the series! Keep at it!
不错
但是里面有些还不是特别真实
sooooo well done
Soundtrack?
Amazing film!
I`ve never bought Arc'teryx products, but i`ll start to be your customer. You made an amazing, creative and impressive video. I know it is for marketing but you did right.