Being Extreme by Gutman Bill;

Author:Gutman, Bill;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
Published: 2002-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Forty-year-old Tom Day currently rides his skies as a high-risk cinematographer who films radical skiers in some of the most out-of-the-way locations on the planet. All that can lead to an extreme adventure that rivals any in the high-risk sports world. As a youngster, Day remembers watching the annual Warren Miller Cold Fusion videos that showed skiers in more adventurous locations, such as high up in the Alps. It was a change from the traditional ski racing that still dominated the sport.

“It was more of an adventure than an extreme thing,” Day said, “and it certainly wasn’t hyped as extreme back then. I grew up in Vermont around a small ski area and used to read magazines about other places. Aspen, Colorado, was the big area at the time, way out West where the snow was deep. Yet you still always had this vision that somewhere else the skiing was even better. I never made major plans about the future, but did go out West and finally began skiing in some movies. Since I also had an interest in photography, skiing in movies sparked another interest in cinematography.”

As a skier, Tom Day was always intrigued by the unknown elements found in the snow that made it virtually impossible to predict what a day on the slopes or on a mountaintop would be like. “That’s the main thing that kept me going with skiing,” he said, “the things you cannot just predict. Every day is different. It may seem as if you’re doing the same thing every day, but the feelings you get from it are different from day to day, run to run. If they were the same, I probably would have given it up a long time ago. I’m getting ready to go skiing as we speak and I can’t tell you what will happen. Maybe it will just be an average, blasé day, or maybe I’ll come across something that’s just cool. It’s a feeling from the snow that goes from your feet to your head.”

During Day’s skiing career, he found there were always different types of challenges, some that happened very quickly and demanded instant reaction, and others that unfolded slowly, with the danger ever present. “The ones that happen really fast are usually the result of you skiing very fast,” he explained, “At that point, you’re focused solely on what you are doing, such as when you’ve picked a line that has a straight shot to a cliff jump. You can’t really think, you just have to do it. But if you’re on a big, big, steep exposed face with all kinds of dangers around you, then there’s more time. You might be in that predicament for twenty minutes to a half hour. Then you often have way too much time to think about where you are. It can be a bit daunting.”

In Day’s role as a cinematographer, the dangers haven’t really lessened. At the time he was interviewed, he had just returned from a rather

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