Archive February 2012

Check out Daniel Rönnbäck’s blog – The life of a young photographer

He just put up some photos from the weekend’s photo shoot – http://danielronnback.blogspot.com/2012/02/chamonix.html

A two-day ski tour at Dents du Midi

I just came back from a two-day ski tour around Dents du Midi in Switzerland with Bjarne Sahlén.  We had planned to ski one of the awesome couloirs on the north side, but snow conditions where really tricky. First, on the south side we had to abandon our objective because of wind loading, and then, […]

Cham photo shoot day 2 – A lonely day in the storm

Today we went up to Midi to get some fair weather shots. The crew for the day was Erik, Daniel and Bjarne. It was a good, cold and fairly slow day where we only did one run (a run from the top of Midi is around 2800 vertical meters) but we got the photos we […]

Chamonix photo shoot!

Yesterday my friends Erik Sunnerheim and Daniel Rönnbäck arrived for a weekend of photo work. Erik, also known as “the Demon” in the Swedish ski community is one of the Swedes on the Freeride World Tour and Daniel is part of the new generation of action sport photographers. It was kind of a last minute […]

Profile on Freeskiers.net

I just got the word from a German friend that they have made a profile on me on Freeskiers.net, a big ski portal in the German speaking ski world!   Check it out here: http://www.freeskiers.net/portal/Magazin/Report-Andreas-Fransson-Skialpinist-und-Lebenskuenstler.html (German only, but you can use translate.google.com).

A powder day in Chamonix

Today was one of those days where we got rewarded for trying. It was snowing more or less the whole day yesterday, but we still just got a few centimeters down in the valley. After a long high-pressure it felt like there was a big risk of getting “dust on crust” skiing today but we […]

Ice climbing in Chamonix

Today I went out with friend and guide Linus Kulstad for some Ice climbing. After a long cold spell it was a relatively warm day with perfect conditions and we went down past Les Houches to one of the big icefalls on the side of the road. With a quick approach, four pitches of really […]