In French he is the "skieur de l'impossible." In English he's the "godfather of extreme skiing." In every language, Switzerland's Sylvain Saudan is a legend — slayer of the world's steepest slopes and ...

At 80 years old, extreme skiing pioneer Sylvain Saudan is back at Whistler Blackcomb to make amends with the resort that once took his name in vain. The Swiss-born Saudan has been a legend for decades ...

Legendary Swiss extreme skiing pioneer Sylvain Saudan has passed away. Le Matin, a Swiss newspaper, reports that he died from a heart attack at 87 years old. “As a pioneer, he helped us develop the ...

His audacious descents around the world inspired a generation of extreme skiers. “One mistake,” he once said, “you die.” By Michael S. Rosenwald Sylvain Saudan, who was widely known as the “skier of ...

Sylvain Saudan, who has died aged 87, was a Swiss extreme skier known as the “skier of the impossible” for his steep and solo descents of big mountain faces around the world. It was in 1967 that ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When his helicopter crashed in the Himalayas in 2007 and Sylvain Saudan disappeared, the tributes came pouring ...