Strait after Gwada I came back home in Cannes and Jeremie Tronet happened to be around for family holidays. Just like last year in Cape Verde, we decided within a few hours to start a new trip together and have some fun.

This time it was a quite different location tho, a little road trip to the mountains in order to show Jerem’ how cold the snow can get… He had never snowboarded before and it was the opportunity to make a funny story out of it… We both are coming from French Caribbean islands (Martinique and Guadeloupe) and we were not quite in our elements at the mountains and living some -12ºC in Switzerland. It might sound ridiculous but when coming a few days before from +28ºC and getting into that fridge can be very hard.

The trip started in GAP, France, where we visited some friends of mine. We then headed to Geneva for a few days, where my friend Goody had invited us to come and ride their snowkite spots. Doing our first New Year party at a ski station was pretty nice, different from what we are used to but the spirit of the mountain is as nice as at the beach. The Swiss team that welcomed us was very friendly and we definitely enjoyed our stay in the Chalet and seeing the village covered with snow.
During our stay there, we probably had one of the most exhausting day of exercise. The plan was to climb for 45 min with our snowkite gear and all the cameras on our back, then rig the kites and go up the mountains all the way to the spot. It sounded amazing and would probably have been the most amazing snowkite day, except that the wind did not quite show up… Therefore we made the 45min be 1h15, then 1h45, 2h and probably more than 2h30… could not do more as we almost made it to the top. The way up there was particularly hard because we had to carry around 30kg of material in order to shoot Jeremie’s first snowkite session ever, but it did not really happen as the light was gone and the wind was very light.
Despite all this, the experience of being up the mountain with powder snow and enjoying the stunning view with friends was still amazing, so we anyway enjoyed the day and a nice “Raclette” for dinner was waiting for us!!!

The rest of the trip was much of the same, traveling around and trying new spots, discovering frozen lakes, snow, snow and more snow, and realizing that Caribbeans are not made for living in a cold place!!

We had a funny snowboard session back in Nice and Jeremie is improving a little at least . The weather here is amazing, about 23ºC at the sun… not the right temperature for snow but still enjoyable for mid january and we took advantage to go climbing a little…
We will be shooting some more snowkite action when the wind finally comes, and then our epic movie should be editable by mister Jerem’ the artist.

Here a few pics of the action, behind the scene and some fun… they talk by themselves and we are still working very very hard on our style!!! Killing it!