Reporter of ESPN has closely followed the career of Swedish alpinist and skier Andreas Fransson for years. When the trailer for , a new movie about Fransson was released this week, he wrote that went into the evolution of the athlete and the film.
When Mike Douglas of first set out to film the skier, he was hoping to make a five-minute short. Fransson in a 2010 avalanche on the Col de l'Aiguille Verte and had a reputation as one of the best extreme skiers in Chamonix. As Douglas discovered, the skier also had a knack for articulating his descents and vision that needed a bigger treatment. “But I started reading and thought, Wow, this guy is way more
interesting than the average pro skier out there,” Douglas told .
“Shortly after starting, I realized it would be a shame to only spend
five minutes in his head.”
Douglas ended up with a 25-minute-long documentary after following the skier from January 2011 to May 2012. During that time, Fransson and .
If you want to learn more about Fransson, . If you want to see more of the movie, Tempting Fear kicks off its at the in Boulder, Colorado, on October 4.
—Joe Spring