Terje Haakonsen First Descent Of 7601 Is Simply Awesome

Terje Haakonsen, a professional snowboarder from Norway, is famous for being one of the most influential riders of all time. Terje became an icon of the sport by being the best in snowboarding competitions in the 1990s. He is also known from starring in the documentary First Descent, from which the clip below is taken.

Check out this video. It is absolutely amazing. Scary. I have skied some challenging mountain faces but this one is truly impressive. See at around 50 seconds how aerial that peak is. See the blue sky and the white snow. Isn’t that beautiful and scary at the same time? And how about around 55 seconds? Is that gnarly enough?

See Terje Haakonsen dropping at around 1:12 seconds. How fast he rides! That is absolutely beautiful snowboarding. See the powder fields at around 2:30 seconds. Fantastic! I would love to step onto my Volkl Gotama skis and ride that face but I guess I would be dead scared just before landing on the peak.

Embedding the video has been disabled, so you gotta watch it in Youtube. Just click here to watch it.

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Marko Pyhajarvi

I am an old-school alpine skier, snowboarder and telemarker, and I love writing. Therefore I founded Homeboy. I (too) enjoy powder, mountaineering and backcountry skiing as well as photographing. Nowadays, as an old fart, I mostly ski with my kids and focus on financing their hobbies.

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