Steep
Steep has nothing to do with tea fanciers who prefer a strong brew. The stars of this documentary are about as diametrically opposed as you can get from teetotallers although they don’t get high on anything but adrenalin. They’re all extreme skiers, a sport that started in the 1980’s French Alps. As a matter of fact for a while it looks like Steep is nothing more that a rehash of 1988’s cult film The Blizzard of AAHHH's but gets back on track (showing props to the Canadian Rockies and surprisingly no deference to Warren Miller) with what today’s thrill seekers are doing. Commercial ski hills in the USA are pretty restrictive so these crazies trek and helicopter to ever more remote and perilous heights and it won’t come as a shock that BC and Alberta are prominent destinations along with Iceland and Alaska. Although the talking head dudes fawn to a mystic extreme when pontificating about their sport, amazing stunt and scenery like this are usually generated by a computer and in Steep they’re the real heart stopping deal.