The Best Skiing, Snow & Alpine Sports Documentaries

Adventure & Extreme - 8 free documentaries about skiing, snow & alpine sports.

Start with Why Avalanches Are So Dangerous (25 min, Veritasium), then How Travis Rice Survived an Avalanche (22 min, National Geographic). All 8 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on skiing, snow & alpine sports is The Last Season by Eric Blehm.

• Why Avalanches Are So Dangerous (25 min, Veritasium)
• How Travis Rice Survived an Avalanche | Edge of the Unknown with Jimmy Chin (22 min, National Geographic)
• The Business of Ski Resorts (14 min, Wendover Productions)
• World's Toughest Jobs: Avalanche Blaster, Coldest Workplace, Tornado Hunter (53 min, Free Documentary)
• The Giant 34,000kg Ski Plane – Hercules LC-130 (46 min, Wonder)
• World Record: Kite Skiing 595 KM In A Gigantic Ice Mass (71 min, Wonder)
• Turning 150,000 Cubic Metres Of Snow Into The World's Biggest Snowboarding Course (45 min, Spark)
• Crossing Home: A Skier's Journey | Series Finale (29 min, Jordan Manley)

Top-Rated Books About Skiing, Snow & Alpine Sports

1. The Last Season by Eric Blehm - View on Amazon
2. The White Spider by Heinrich Harrer - View on Amazon
3. Annapurna by Maurice Herzog - View on Amazon