Speedriding, night freeriding, skiing on a volcano... It's an understatement to say that Private Sport Shop ambassador Wadeck Gorak gave 100% his all this year to produce his latest film, "Face à la nature". The film has just been released.
By following him on his social networks over the last few months, we understood that Wadeck Gorak was preparing a nice surprise for the end of the year. The Private Sport Shop ambassador explained that he was shooting a film which would be unveiled in the autumn. Since Saturday November 25, his latest production, "Face à la nature", has been available on the Riding Zone TV platform at this address. After previews in Chamonix, Marseille and Barcelonette, the film is now available to the general public.
In five chapters, the freeride ski champion, winner of the Verbier Xtreme in 2019, takes us on a series of crazy adventures. "Face à la Nature" is all about facing up to the dangers, but also the pleasures, that the mountains can bring: skiing with Wadeck on Etna, the most iconic of volcanoes, speedriding with Valentin Delluc, the man who introduced Tom Cruise to speedflying for "Mission Impossible", or enjoying the magic of night freeriding with Léa Bouard.
In fact, it was during the making of this film that Wadeck Gorak experienced one of the biggest scares of his life, as he explained a few months ago after an outing on the north face of the Aiguille de Chambeyron in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence: "With Olivier Jean and Jeremy Rumebe, we wanted to return to the spot, 10 years after our first ski on it. We quickly realized that it was going to be complicated to reproduce this line with very limited snow cover in the summit section, so it was with nostalgia that we decided to go to the Brèche Nero, which has become much more complex than 10 years ago, with 10 meters of mixed crampons and ice axes to access the face."
"Here we are, 100 meters from the summit with Jeremy, when all of a sudden there's a first bang in the snow, followed by a second that makes the whole mountain tremble, as if the whole face were about to collapse - a terrifying moment, so we decide to try and get to a rocky spot as quickly as possible to get to safety. Unthinkable to set foot on this face again in any way, we were terrified, and the only solution was to call the PGHM in Jausier to get us out of this trap as quickly as possible. 40 minutes later, the helicopter was on site and we were all winched out with exceptional efficiency and control. Many thanks again to Vincent and Olivier, our two rescuers, and of course to the entire PGHM Jausier team. You do a hell of a job. This will remain a great enigma, a dozen detonations as if the mountain was shaking as if everything was going to collapse around us without any real explanation."
