GO BEHIND THE SCENES ON THE INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA FEATURE AT http://freeskitv.salomon.com/en/episodes/eclipse WINNER 'Best Snow Sports Film' - 2015 Banff Mountain Film Festival WINNER 'Best Visual Film' - 2015 Kendal Mountain Film Festival WINNER 'Best Mountain Culture Film' - 2015 Whistler Film Festival WINNER 'Best Adventure Film'- New York WILD Film Festival WINNER 'Best Adventure Film'- Bovec Outdoor Film Festival It was a ridiculous idea from the start. Travel to the edge of the earth to see one of the planet’s rarest events- a total solar eclipse in the Arctic. Faced with the likely reality of bad weather obscuring the sun and having to battle frigid, arctic temperatures and winds, the odds did not favor success. Despite this the Salomon Freeski TV team and set out on an expedition to realize photographer, Reuben Krabbe’s grand vision to capture a single unique image- one of skiing during a solar eclipse. Persistence, preparation and a positive attitude was a guarantee of nothing as March 20th, 2015, dawned. The fate of the expedition’s goal would rest entirely in the hands of the weather gods. Opening news report from PRI's 'The World®' Used with permission from Public Radio International®