Dan Egan, Extreme Skiing Pioneer (Bonus Episode #11)
The Ski Podcast6 Feb 2021

Dan Egan, Extreme Skiing Pioneer (Bonus Episode #11)

This Ski Podcast Special features Dan Egan - one of the extreme skiing pioneers back in the new world of the 80s when VHS revolutionised demand for ski footage.

Apart from leading the MTV generation of skiers, he's a familiar name to anyone who's watched a Warren Miller movie, or visited the Vermont stand at the London Ski Show over the years.

Dan was part of the original freeride scene, back when it was better known as 'extreme' skiing. We talked to him about his carerre and new book, Thirty Years in a White Haze, his story of worldwide adventure and the evolution of extreme skiing.

  • Dan is based in Big Sky, Montana
  • Check out Big C couloir
  • Mt Elbrus is the highest mountain in Europe
  • Dan was on a Degre 7 shoot
  • Dan featured in 12 Warren Miller movies
  • Future Retro is available digitally
https://youtu.be/prEWB3vfZRA
  • Mark Shapiro, John Faulkner were part of the Verbier posse
  • John Egan first starred for Warren Miller in 1979, with Dan joining in 1985
  • Both John and Dan started off in Sugarbush
  • "If everybody skied, there'd be no wars" Hannes Schneider
  • Dan skied on the Berlin Wall
  • "Say yes, before you say no!" Warren Miller
  • Dan's steep ski courses are in Big Sky
  • "Skiing from the head down, not the feet up" Dan Egan
  • 'Thirty Years in a White Haze' is out on 20 Feb
  • The book features Nick Lyon's cartoons

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