Powder skiing in the French Alps. Watch the movie!

My compliments to you guys! You did an outstanding job! You guys are PERFECT skiers, I love the “In a world where gravity rules and fear is your worst enemy. Three skiers challenged the elements of nature” very much! Great video!

Nice! Try also searchin’ “Backcountry snowboarding in the Dolomites – Monte Pore (2405 m)”!

@WalkerSomerville you cannot “master” skiing. it is a sport that continues to evolve, and will continue to evolve until long after we are all dead. dont be so presumptious as to say that you have mastered it. you havent.

I’m going there over Christmas
Is I good

@sparkynet exactly
telemarking is for more advanced skiers that have mastered the “art” of regular skiing and want more of a challenge! and its aLOT more fun!
dont knock it till you try it!

Off piste skiing is great! And one of the funnest things about it is falling over

Great video! Awesome skiing, and a great soundtrack! Well done

lol @ 1:40

lol …

ive been to a few coloradan resorts, copper steamboat breck and loveland but the alps look 100 times better as far as terrain goes, id love to make it there some day sounds like heaven to me, this just doesnt seem to be that great of pow compared to some of the powder days ive skiied in the rockies, im sure this vid doesnt give alps powder the justice it deserves

haha good joke!!.

But i must say there is one, no two bad things.
1 Its very crowded (in a few places (!resorts!)
2 in lines people step on your skis
But all the heaven around you cancels that out,
seriously go there, its heaven

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
OMG LOL, you can even compare The Alps and Vail! HAHAHA Clearly I see you dont know what youre talking about, The Alps will own Vail in every way (not saying Vail is bad, its great, but you just cant compare. Vail is a resort, The Alps is a huge mountain area, theres for begginners, advanced, extreme and suicides, and in some places you can even see the mediterrenean while skiing)

Thats why all yall loonies came to big mountain this season… right?

yeah but dude skiing in deep powder gets all up in yo grill haha

now that is hardly the point, is it?

I am sure the Alps is beautiful, but that is pretty weak compared to Vail.

wow i live in canada and we get way deeper powder than that at fernie

Envy U!!!

I know… isn’t hilarious..?!

i agree with mountainjim  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

great movie !

” Three skiers challenged the elements of nature” HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

sehr geil! what price is that kind of backpack for skiers?

The Hives – Hate To Say I Told You So…

type in “ski crashes” in the youtube search and click the video with stars in the title to be shocked!

hmm……….. i can do that

@tomlibuda evil side?

@00ludovan00 i dont have to wish i can

@condog15 it’s LOFOFORA french metal punk band since 90′s

title : le fond et la forme

bad ass

I wish I could ski like that….

whats the song on this video coz its really good

True skiing;) This video goes overboard with freeride… I ski Alta+Snowbird , but this video shows evil side (French Alps)

Absolutely mad; my year 8′s are gonna love it……………
thanx

good video

i go skiing 12 hours!!!

there at the alps!!!

nice skiing!

manso eskii

Incredible. Very Jealous

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hooola yooo subo pero mas tarde , tengo que recojer a parte de mi team de ski y subo necesitas subida ??

The riders have well deserved their rest day before the Alps !

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oh ok phew, i started to actually worry there once you mentioned actually being diligent! ha! to think of being diligent the whole 5 day weekend! what laughs! ;P

but your adventures always sound so breathtaking! ruins are by far the most amazing things ever!!!! hehe, and the way you wrote, just how enraptured you were by them and their surrounding beauty just made me go “long sigh…* im glad your settling into the “relaxing, not rushed and stressed” mode that europe offers its a great thing! as long as it doesnt slip into a “lazy, i dont wanna get up and seize the day” type of relaxation, ya know?

and dudeeee!!! thinking of meeting up with other travelers, you're right, the INSTANT-connection you have with them is just… great we met this guy that was walking across, yes thats right, WALKING across europe (spain->France ->Alps -> Italy) and it was just like BOOM, conversation it was fantastique!

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Posted by Lauren Drablier on October 7, 2008 at 12:12 PMBertrand Pecquerie wrote in an article in Le Monde yesterday that the French newspaper industry is in crisis and, worryingly, turning to the State for help. Newspapers have been subsidized in France for the past ten years and, in those ten years, the situation has not improved, it has actually worsened.Pecquerie believes that there are four core problems facing the industry and these are not being addressed. The four core issues are method, diagnosis, objective and means.MethodThe idea that the State is remodeling the press is absurd. The brutal and authoritative re-composition of the audio and visual sector in France in January 2008 should be a clear enough indication of what the State can do to newspapers. The best method would have been a reorganization of newspapers from within, rather than just handing their executive powers to the state.DiagnosisThe French press is currently suffering from a crisis of demand. It is the fault of the readers and the buyers who, year-after-year, desert the kiosks. But, what we forget is that the decline in France is no less or no more than the rest of Europe, and it is more a consequence than a cause.The real problem is the crisis of what's in the market for newspaper readers. If the public no longer purchases newspapers, its because they do not have enough choice, they are not being offered enough diversity. There are 350 dailies in Germany versus 80 in France. Sweden also has 80 dailies, but France has seven times the population. Over the past five years more than ten new newspapers have been created Western Europe, but not one of them is in France. Another factor in the crisis is editorial content: some dailies have cut their content by up to 20%, while their price has increased by 30%. We wonder why readers don't appreciate the changes.The industry should ask itself about the incredible Malthusianism taking place in the French press. Why is it that in almost every European country it is possible to find a newspaper for 50 cents, but not in France? Why is it that the content of a paid-for daily in France has the same content as a free daily in London?Objective Without doubt, the under-capitalization of French newspapers has made them unable to invest and adapt to new forms or models on the internet or mobile platforms. The UK's Guardian website draws 23 million unique visitors, the equivalent traffic to ten French news sites. There is talk of relaxing the current legislative constraints that restrict media companies from owning more than one news source. If this occurs, it would mean that newspapers could also own television and radio stations. However, this would not change anything, because in France, this would just mean increased influence in the media world, not an increase in revenue. For example, for groups such as Bouygues, Lagardère and Dassault, media outlets are their second means of income; whereas with Axel Springer, Bertelsman, Trinity Mirror, Prisa, RCS, Bonnier, Stampen, Ringier and Edipresse, are more or less 100% media companies. This means that they have more of an incentive to develop their models. A dose of European press capitalism would do the French model some good.If there was to be one objective for the French press, it would be to open France to European companies who know how to create dailies that make an impression, that know how to develop in a pluralistic environment and who know how to make a profit. We are wrong about our objective, European champions – yes, French champions – no.Means The press is approaching this problem by asking the State for financial assistance – over 280 million euros. For the past ten years, the subsidies have not stopped increasing, while the crisis in the French press continues. This clearly illustrates that we are approaching this problem with the wrong logic, and the state keeps throwing money into a bottomless pit.The paradox is that the state is maintaining certain dailies. All countries in Europe help their newspapers in different ways, but the fact that French newspapers depend on the State is unhealthy. A state-subsidized press will become, whether we want it to or not, a tool of the state, and will not push the limits when reporting on the state so as not to step on the toes of those who control it.The real issues are elsewhere. Instead of focusing on the newspapers that exist, why doesn't the State focus on the creation of more multimedia outlets on the Internet and other new media platforms? Essentially, should the state continue to pay for the publication of Libération or choose to support the development of Rue89.com, which has the same type of journalism as the former (the creators of the site used to work for Libération)?]]>

French voters split on working week
By Henri Astier
BBC News, Paris and Pau

French waiter and restaurant diner
Some French want the freedom to work longer hours

On the face of it, the 35-hour week is here to stay. Like paid holidays and the welfare state, it is widely seen as an “acquis social” – one of those left-wing innovations that have become permanent fixtures of the French system.

President Jacques Chirac left it in place in 2002 after inheriting it from the previous socialist administration.

His potential centre-right successor, Nicolas Sarkozy, has also pledged not to scrap the 35-hour-week if he wins Sunday's presidential election – only to make it more flexible.

But despite the apparent consensus, the days of “reduced working time” – as it is officially known – could be numbered.

A silent but powerful hostility has been growing for years, and whoever ends up running France may have to make wrenching changes.

Nicolas Duport, jewellery worker
If Sarkozy is elected we will be able to work an extra four hours
Nicolas Duport, jewellery worker, Paris

Take the case of Alain Bie, 30, who has just started a job as a bartender in the south-western town of Pau.

“The owner told me that normally I was restricted to 35 hours a week, but I told him I wanted to be able to work more and make more money,” he says.

At the other end of the country, Nicolas Duport, a 29-year-old jewellery worker from Paris with a wife and child to support, expresses the same concerns and says they will influence his vote on Sunday.

“If Sarkozy is elected we will be able to work an extra four hours,” he says approvingly.

'Struck a chord'

Mr Sarkozy – whose main economic motto in the campaign plan has been “work more, earn more” – wants to encourage overtime by making it largely tax-exempt.

“This has struck a chord in the working class electorate,” says Jean-Claude Casanova, editor of the political review Commentaire.

“Sarkozy has capitalised on the silent criticism of employees who want more money in their pockets.”

The 35-hour week was thought up in the mid-1990s to revive the socialists' fortunes following an electoral meltdown.

The idea was to resolve France's entrenched unemployment problem by sharing out work, while at the same time indulging the nation's taste for fun and leisure.

Nicolas Sarkozy on the campaign trail on 4 May
Sarkozy's plans to alter the 35-hour week are popular with some

This was just a vague aspiration, but when the socialists unexpectedly won legislative elections in 1997 they had to find quickly a way to implement the idea.

Negotiations with both unions and employers led to a semi-flexible system – the 35 hours were treated as an annual average, and time worked in excess of this in any given week would be compensated by extra leave.

A decade on, the system is under attack.

Economists say employment is not a fixed quantity to be shared out.

The best way to create jobs, they say, is growth – and France has very little of either. It has the slowest growth of any large EU economy and unemployment remains high.

Relative decline

Given this sorry record, it is hardly surprising that no other country has adopted the 35-hour week.

France's European partners – notably Nordic countries – have moved in the opposite direction, making labour markets more flexible, and have seen their economies improve as a result.

Many ordinary people in France have noticed their country's relative decline and are talking like economists.

“We need deep reforms,” says Claude Oudin, 49, a plumber from Paris. “Given our public debt, it is high time we did something. You must not prevent people from working more.”

In some key branches of the French economy, a culture of hard work has been retained.

Segolene Royal meets textile workers, 4 May
Royal wants to extend the 35-hour week to more companies

Restaurants are a case in point. “I do 12-hour days and working less would be unrealistic,” says Laetitia Massoni, 30, a cook in a luxury hotel in the resort of Biarritz.

Employers who need a flexible workforce have to be creative. Many restaurants pay “overtime” (ie anything above 35 hours) without declaring it.

Other firms resort to temp work – a booming sector in France.

I work when I want and where I want
Ilyes Ouraghi, security guard, Pau

Millions temp because they cannot find permanent jobs, which are a rarity in a country where contracts must contain iron-clad guarantees.

But temping also suits many employees, like Ilyes Ouraghi, 30, a security guard from Pau.

“I work when I want and where I want,” he says. “I would never go back to a permanent contract with a 35-hour week.”

Most of those calling for deep employment reforms are likely to vote for Mr Sarkozy.

It may seem ironic that a member of an outgoing conservative government, should embody change, but a recent opinion survey published by Le Monde suggests this is the case.

Much support

His socialist rival, Segolene Royal, by contrast, is seen an a defender of the traditional welfare state. She has pledged to extend the 35-hour week to virtually all firms, through negotiation.

However few expect her to leave the system untouched if she is elected.

A newcomer, she has shown that she is not afraid to take on traditionalists in the socialist camp.

FRENCH ECONOMIC WOES
Slowest-growing large EU economy
Public debt 66% of GDP and growing
8.3% unemployment

Her economic programme owes much to old-left ideas, but according to social analyst Louis Chauvel, she could be a force for reform.

“The Socialist Party is like a bank,” he says. “You have a front office and the back office. Royal's kitchen cabinet is full of social democrats who admire the Nordic system.”

Of course, fixing France's dysfunctional labour market will not be easy. Many French people still support the 35-hour week.

I'm 23 and I'd like to work more
Mohammed, cleaner from Pau

Last month, employees at a heavy goods factory in eastern France overwhelmingly reject a management offer to work more to allow the company to expand.

But scratch under the surface of such militancy and interesting nuances start to appear.

Mohammed, a cleaner from Pau, is dead set against Mr Sarkozy's plan to weaken the 35-hour week.

“Overtime would be decided by employers,” he says. “Employees will be forced to work more. It would be terrible for older colleagues who want to spend time with their families.”

But when asked about his own wishes, Mohammed's position is different.

“I'm a special case,” he says. “I'm 23 and I'd like to work more.” ]]>