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Chamonix Video Report: 6th May 2008

Freeride Days at the Grands Montets

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Jonathan is up at the Grands Montets for the official closing party of another winter in the Chamonix Valley. The snow is still tremendous and fortunately there is a bonus week left to enjoy it.

Enjoy the bonus footage as well: highlights from both the day and the winter.

Jonathan Trigell is the author of the novel Boy A winner of The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, The Waverton Award and The World Book Day Prize 2008, which was recently turned into a BAFTA winning drama by Film 4. He also wrote the first serious novel about winter sports: Cham. "Trigell’s ski-bum hedonism does for extreme winter sports what Alex Garland’s The Beach did for backpacking" - The Financial Times

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