ski and snow speed vallon de la doire

Fortunately for Ian McIntosh, Canada's health insurance system still insures for folks with pre-existing conditions, like having a few screws loose upstairs. You're not supposed to be able to ski La Grave—a place infamous for pants-shitting steeps and deadly exposure—at the speeds Mac and Johnny Collinson do in this episode of Sony Mind's Eye, so maybe socialized medicine is playing a part in the ability of guys like Ian to blaze new trails in the speed category (we're joking). Watch Ian...

Powder day in La Grave, France. It had been snowing non-stop the day before, and with 60cm of fresh powder at 3200m, we decided to go west, through the "Vallon Chancel" and the "Couloir des Fréaux".