Sylvain Saudan (born 23 September 1936 in Lausanne, Switzerland) is an extreme skier, dubbed "skier of the impossible." He is noted for skiing down large and steep mountains, including those in the Himalayas, North America, Asia, Africa and Europe. In 1982, he entered the Guinness Book of World Records for descending the highest and steepest slope ever skied.
SylvainSaudan (born 23 September 1936 in Lausanne, Switzerland) is an extreme skier, dubbed "skier of the impossible." He is noted for skiing down large...
Extreme' in the 1970s. The first practitioners include Swiss skier SylvainSaudan, who invented the "windshield wiper" turn in the mid-1960s, and in 1967...
Jacchini, Michele Pala and Lino Pironi. In June 1969, the extreme skier SylvainSaudan descended the entire Marinelli Couloir on the east face. First solo...
Vallençant is the first woman who reaches the summit. Her husband, SylvainSaudan from Switzerland, performs the first ski descent from the top of an...
Isherwood. 1972: First descent on skis down the sheer southwest face, by SylvainSaudan, "Skier of the Impossible". 1976: First solo ascent of the Cassin Ridge...
Peruvian lawyer and politician, 91st President of Peru (d. 2006) 1936 – SylvainSaudan, Swiss skier 1936 – Tareq Suheimat, Jordanian physician, general, and...
Saudan Couloir by local skiers even before it was part of the ski area, the company eventually had to drop the name when extreme skier SylvainSaudan...
Graven and Josef Knubel 1970: First ski descent over the west flank, by SylvainSaudan. 1986: Welshman Eric Jones becomes the first person to BASE jump from...
Olsson Sean Pettit Glen Plake Eric Pollard Mike Riddle Kevin Rolland SylvainSaudan TJ Schiller Scot Schmidt Candide Thovex Kaya Turski Tom Wallisch Torin...
Davenport and Stian Hagen sit down with the pioneer of extreme skiing SylvainSaudan. The athletes share the truth they gain by using big mountains to peer...
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