What is it about the mountains that keeps drawing you in?
“I don’t know what to do when I’m not there. There is no other place I feel better than on the mountain. I like the freedom of just being and I really like how, afterwards, I can say that I have been there and I know what it looks like when you are up there… It’s always a different experience and that’s also why I like to be there, it’s never the same.”
When you put on skis, you tend to head straight for the backcountry. Why choose to do the hard work of making your own ascents, when you could simply take a ski lift to the top?
“When you leave the ski resorts and ski lifts and put on skis there is no stop. There are no boundaries, you can just go and you can create the adventure that you want. And you can really reach those places that you can’t with a ski lift. You can just go to the first top, ski down, take the next top, and you can continue that for days, and years. The most satisfying part is when you have been hiking up the mountain for hours and you reach the top and suddenly you get a whole new world, a whole new view that you haven’t seen the whole day. That’s a really nice feeling.