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Pioneers of Adventure Sports 
Larry Prosor Photography NFT + Print Collection

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Skiers: Doug Coombs and Scot Schmidt

Location: Mike Wiegele Heli World, B.C., Canada

Two-time World Extreme Skiing champion Doug Coombs deftly dealing with stage fright on an ice curtain stage. Having lost the coin-toss, Scot Schmidt awaits the queue. This photo series of Doug became one of the most popular ski posters ever produced. 

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Skiers: Ski Tracks

Location: Mike Wiegele Heli World, B.C., Canada

International Powder Eight World Championship teams leave symmetrical tracks in a snow tapestry creation. A flying machine makes the powder skier’s dreams come true, thanks to visionary dreams of Mike Wiegele.      

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Skier: Scot Schmidt;
Location: Squaw Valley (Palisades Tahoe) 

Scot Schmidt setting a big air mark off the Palisades cliffs with Lake Tahoe in the distance. His future as a pioneering professional extreme skier was just beginning. This photo landed him a full page in Powder magazine and the interests of Warren Miller.  

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Snowboarder: Jim Zellers
Location: Donner Ski Ranch, California

Jim Zellers soars at Donner Ski Ranch, one of the few early-days ski resorts to welcome snowboarders to share slopes and occupy lifts with skiers. This photo session was one of the first polished series of photos to land with startup snowboarding magazine editors

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California surfer, skateboarder and snowboard icon, Tom Sims was a visionary businessman to the benefit of many. Here’s Tom showing his snowboarding skill on an early model Sims split tail design.  

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Snowboarder: Bonnie Leary Zellers
Location: Sugar Bowl, California

Bonnie Leary Zellers going big while threading a snow terrain feature with her confident, athletic grace. One of the first professionally sponsored woman snowboarders, she set down tracks for others to try and follow.   

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Rider: Tina Vindum
Location: Yosemite, California

Yosemite’s Half Dome as backdrop, Tina Vindum rides towards the cover photo for Mountain Bike magazine. A talented athlete who brings her joy for outdoor exercise into a lifestyle business, she shares with others her insight on Nature as a workout venue.  

Why this? why now?       . . . Why Not? 

This NFT/Print collection is Prosor’s comprehensive work on the rise of extreme adventure sports and majestic outdoor environments. It embodies the rebellious spirit of a unique group of outliers as they pushed the physical and psychological limits of what the human body and the equipment of the era could accomplish. Despite their trademark solitude, their feats as shown through many of the photographs in this collection would catch the attention of the entire world sky rocketing these sports to global levels of popularity. These accomplishments are well worth appreciating for their own sake, but we can learn even more from the methods and philosophy behind them. Many of the extreme skiers, snowboarders, and mountain bikers of the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s saw themselves as alpinists and environmentalists first rather than athletes. Before there was anywhere near the money in these sports there is today, they were pushing boundaries not for the fame, but for the sense of adventure. They did this with a respect for the land they traversed and with an appreciation for the serenity of Nature. In a time where we are far too quick to substitute raw personal experience for the proxy of video media, the constraints of these still moments invites the viewer to grab their bike, their skis, their snowboard or running shoes and experience the backcountry for themselves.  By offering this collection as an NFT + Print pair, this project spans over four decades to bring you a deeply historical yet contemporary offering. The 16X24 archival quality print provides a tactile experience of the exhilaration of these feats and the breathtaking beauty in which they were performed. The NFT containing the digital image captures the immortal quality of a few visionary individuals challenging the world’s definition of “the impossible”. In an effort to preserve these sacred places for future generations, Larry Prosor Photography commits a percentage of sales to organizations focused on sustainably taking care of Nature.

The first chapter of Prosor's first-of-its-kind NFT + Print Collection is live on OpenSea Marketplace. Click on the images below to view their NFT page. 

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Rider: Jim Zellers
Location: Eastern Sierra, California

Behind the rider is the highest mountain in the continental USA, Mount Whitney. 

A reasonable bike ride from this location is the lowest elevation in the USA, Death Valley. 

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Bikers: Greg Betonte and Jim Zellers
Location: The Flume Trail, Lake Tahoe, Nevada

The Flume Trail requires your complete attention to stay healthy, however, there comes a time when it’s wise to pause the thrill of the ride to appreciate the views.  

© 2019 Larry Prosor

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