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By Sam Collentine, Meteorologist Posted 8 years ago November 10, 2015

FILM: Eclipse - Salomon Freeski TV

After premiering at the Banff Mountain Film Festival earlier this month, Salomon Freeski TV finally released the 30-minute short film titled "Eclipse" today. Here's the premise of the film:

It was a ridiculous idea from the start. Travel to the edge of the earth to see one of the planet’s rarest events, a total solar eclipse in the Arctic. Faced with the likely reality of bad weather obscuring the sun and having to battle frigid, arctic temperatures and winds, the odds did not favor success. Despite this the Salomon Freeski TV team and set out on an expedition to realize photographer, Reuben Krabbe’s grand vision to capture a single unique image, one of skiing during a solar eclipse. Persistence, preparation and a positive attitude was a guarantee of nothing as March 20th, 2015, dawned. The fate of the expedition’s goal would rest entirely in the hands of the weather gods.

Now enough reading, enjoy the film. 

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Sam Collentine

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Sam Collentine is the Chief Operating Officer of OpenSnow and lives in Basalt, Colorado. Before joining OpenSnow, he studied Atmospheric Science at the University of Colorado, spent time at Channel 7 News in Denver, and at the National Weather Service in Boulder.

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