Go Telemark Skiing in Sweden

Female: In Sweden Telemark skiing has been a way of life for over a thousand years, these days you're beginning to see this unique style growing in popularity throughout the ski world. It requires tremendous leg strength and balance but the payoff is a graceful dance down the mountain.

Hawken Ericksen: Were getting close to the snow standing lower. Its really high and so snowy, get the snow platting up in your face. So this is one of the biggest places too and I like them— In Sweden definitely.

Nettan Nikklasson: This is my new home, I love this place I've been all over living Edinburgh in Stockholm but that is too big places. Here people are nice and all my friends are not so big family. I've skied downwards since I was eight and this where I do it up here, I love it. It’s more natural for me it’s more natural to ski this way. And are cool all the time, I have often blue all the place. It’s the best thing it can do, it’s been great, we can't do anything better than ski.

Female: Ivo compares Telemark Skiing to snowboarding.

Ivo Langefurs: Oh, I love it, I used to ski without my clothes or it’s just a snowboard. It was—sort of iced.

Female: Learning to Telemark requires patience and determination.

Linda Sundqvist: It’s so nice but it’s hard, it’s very hard.

Female: The Swedish are known throughout the ski world for upraised ski ethics. Weather they're at home or abroad they tend to be the first to arrive and the last to leave.

Hawken Ericksen: Oh, that’s one that is one. There’s hundreds of people drinking beer and making to live bands its just great to just fun.