Snowboard & Freeski: A freeriding history!

Freeride World Tour 2015 - 20th Anniversary of the Xtreme Verbier - Part 2

Verbier (Switzerland)

2015

is the year of  the 2oth Anniversary of the Xtreme Verbier - and as the

legendary face of the Bec de Rosses has always been one of the most

spectecular venues for freeriding and also hosts the final of the

Freeride World Tour for years now it is time to have a look back!

The

idea started sprouting in 1995 in the minds of Nicolas Hale-Woods and

Philippe Buttet They wanted to organize the first ever snowboard

freeride event in Europe on an extreme mountain face, yet visible for

the public to enjoy the show live.

One

year later the event was inaugurated in Verbier on the legendary Bec

des Rosses in the Swiss Valais region. The Xtreme Verbier was born! In

2004, skiers were invited to compete at the event for the first time.

The

competition format was inspired from surf competitions as organized by

the ASP World Tour and was an immediate success among the athletes, the

spectators, the media, partners and sponsors and gave life to a full

world tour where the world’s best riders would compete on different epic

mountains in some of the most renowned resorts of the world.