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00:01The whole game is to stay alive where most would.
00:05Up!
00:10Nicolai Schirmer, you are a skier and a filmmaker.
00:14How did you come up with this idea?
00:16I came up with it because of Vegard.
00:18And then you just go all the way up and turn?
00:20Yes.
00:21This is a strenuous trip.
00:23It's equivalent to four marathons and several trips up to Mount Everest.
00:27This is sick!
00:28We're going to make the movie about the greatest ski tour of all time.
00:31The weather is better than the performance.
00:33And Vegard is just disappearing.
00:35He's just doing it.
00:36And he's like barely allowing me to make a movie.
00:39If I can keep up.
00:40I realized I could appropriate his way of life to achieve my own goals as a skier.
00:45It's not even slightly more difficult to ski freeride lines via human power.
00:49It's like 10x more difficult.
00:51It is on a different level.
00:59There's a million ways that this could not work.
01:04Oh!
01:09Oh, Nico!
01:13I've never seen a person who's been up for 47 hours about to climb a mountain.
01:19It's slippery.
01:20So many years in the making.
01:22Now it begins.
01:23The greatest ski tour of all time.
01:25The Greatest Ski Tour of All Time
01:29It's special that Vegard is in this movie.
01:32He wouldn't be here tonight.
01:46We made a movie.
01:48I can't say it was easy.
01:50It was actually really freaking hard.
01:51I listened to a podcast with Benjamin Reh.
01:54He's the most successful Norwegian documentary director of the last decade.
01:59Made Iblin.
02:00You need to watch that if you haven't.
02:01It's an amazing movie.
02:02It was just a virtual kiss.
02:05But boy, I could almost feel it.
02:07He was stating as a matter of fact that it takes four years to make a documentary feature film.
02:13I was like, ah, right.
02:15That's why this has been so freaking stressful.
02:18You're not supposed to do it in a year and a half, two years.
02:22I'm tired.
02:26But now, we're here.
02:28Done.
02:29Last exports.
02:31And the movie is actually opening a program on the biggest film festival in Norway.
02:35For the premiere in January.
02:37At TIFF.
02:38And that's kind of crazy because those are just like normal movies, you know?
02:41Like, not just like ski movies, but movie movies.
02:45So to be included there and to open that program is like, thank you TIFF.
02:51And after it's going to be in movie theaters all over Norway.
02:54Sweden, too, I think.
02:56I think they're working out the deal there.
02:58And we've done our own distribution globally to get it out into the world.
03:01So thank you for letting me know about movie theaters.
03:04Getting in touch with them.
03:06A lot of them, like, we're just kind of confused by us getting in touch, like, not being a distribution company.
03:12And, you know, we haven't really made a real movie before.
03:15But some of them have put them up, like, all over the world.
03:17So I made a website, theskimovie.no.
03:20Check it out if it's playing anywhere close to where you are.
03:24And we are also working on streaming, like, after the theatrical run.
03:28The Norwegian distributor is, like, watching Ari Gold in action.
03:32This is the most important meeting of your entire life.
03:35Things are happening.
03:36So stay tuned for that if it's not playing anywhere near where you live.
03:42If you follow the channel, you'll see not much has happened in the last few weeks.
03:46I was not able to keep up with the planned releases that I had for YouTube.
03:51So I'm actually pretty stoked to get going with that again now that I've pretty much wrapped up this project.
03:58I have some cool stuff in the pipeline.
04:00New gear. Amazing new gear.
04:02Some trips from last year, like BTS from the movie, kind of.
04:05And new projects.
04:07And new projects.
04:09Honestly, I'm so stoked to just, like, get out there and just ski and document that in, like, the short YouTube format
04:17after having spent so much time, so many hours, like, deep down in this story that is ski.
04:25Hope you enjoy the movie when you get to see that.
04:28Take care. Hope you're having a good winter.
04:30We're skiing up here. It's good.