National Geographic Traveller (UK)

GÉRALDINE FASNACHT

What inspired you to get into extreme sports?

By the time I was 15, my idols were Steve Klassen and Gilles Voirol; I had posters on my bedroom wall. They were strong and fast snowboarding champions, always finding aesthetic lines on the mountain. I knew then I wanted to ride like them on the Bec des Rosses, the Swiss peak home to the most extreme skiing

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