Extremist skiers in latest Miller offering

Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 9, Issue 393, 2 July 1991, Page 7

Extremist skiers in latest Miller offering

"It could be a scene from a James Bond Movie," says reviewer Matt White about the latest Warren Millar ski movie - Extreme Winter, when two skiers hurtle around jagged rocks leaping tall boulders - highspeed sliding almost to eternity. And this is followed bya break-away threestory cornice taking off 300 metres to the valley below. The first skier

makes it - the second does too but his skis spend more time in the air than on the snow. The skiers are two Vermont carpenters, not stuntmen, volunteering to provide extreme skiing for Warren Miller's camera in his 41st ski movie. The movie includes shots from Russian snow slopes to Antarctica, where four skiers played on a 2000 metre unnamed peak, smaller than many Miller has filmed but with new dan-

gers. There is the usual Miller humour, with things like the shots of a junk-yard car engine powering a slime covered rope tow and the associated skier activity. A million kilo'metres of travel, 14 cameramen as well as the life threatening skiing went into the movie. Extreme Winter shows this week at the Ohakune Kings Theatre and will screen at various times throughout the ski season.