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Breathtaking Scenery

Here they find some of the most
exciting skiable terrain on the
continent. During a fox chase
across the wild Granite Glacier,
with Mike Wiegele as the fox,
the viewers can follow them in
and out of crevasses, over 50 foot
ice cliffs and across beautiful slopes
which will make anyone's mouth
water.

For two weeks they ski and play
to their heart's content. In the
evenings talk ranges from major
international races to the intricacies
of running a ski school in
the winter-locked British Columbia
Hinterland, and to why it is possible
for Nancy Greene to win the
World Cup while Canada's male
skiers have yet to win a major
international meet.

This makes "Rendezvous in the
Selkirks" a very real and engaging
story. It also shows that for these
eight adventurers skiing is indeed
"a way of life."

There is thus little doubt that it
is also "a way of life" for Hans
Gmoser, who directs, films and
narrates this mountain adventure
story.