STEEP Now Available on DVD
Standard or Blu Ray.

Read Director's Statement
"This is a film about the experience of being a certain kind of athelete: skier involved in high-risk sports activity. It's about what goes on in the minds of these athletes, what draws them to it and how they balance the risks and rewards of their sport."

STEEP in Theaters
Sony Pictures Classics calls STEEP "visually stunning" and "a spectacular documentary." See release schedule.

The Denver Post
"The early buzz - humming quietly in remote corners of skiing's online communities - is the feature film has upped the ante of ski filmmaking with unique camera angles and historical perspectives on the nascent sport."

Powder.com
"The old-school footage from Chamonix in the early 80s is alone worth the price of admission."



STEEP is a feature documentary about bold adventure, exquisite athleticism and the pursuit of a perfect moment on skis. It is the story of big mountain skiing, a sport that barely existed 35 years ago.

It started in the 1970s in the mountains above Chamonix, France, where skiers began to attempt ski descents so extreme that they appeared almost suicidal. Men like Anselme Baud and Patrick Vallencant were inspired by the challenge of skiing where no one thought to ski before. Now, two generations later, some of the world’s greatest skiers pursue a sport where the prize is not winning, but simply experiencing the exhilaration of skiing and exploring big, wild, remote mountains.

STEEP features many of the sport’s greatest athletes including Bill Briggs, Stefano De Benedetti, Eric Pehota, Glen Plake, Shane McConkey, Seth Morrison, Chris Davenport, Ingrid Backstrom and Andrew McLean.

The man who is often described as the greatest big mountain skier of all, the late Doug Coombs, is the character at the center of STEEP. He died in a skiing accident in La Grave, France, in April, 2006, just days after being filmed for STEEP. His rich life and tragic death reveal the essential question at the heart of big mountain skiing: How does a skier weigh the risks versus the rewards of a sport where the possibility of dying is ever-present?

STEEP was shot on High Definition and on film in Alaska, Wyoming, Canada, France and Iceland.


Writer and Director, Mark Obenhaus

Producers, Jordan Kronick and Gabrielle Tenenbaum

Executive Producers, J. Stuart Horsfall, Mark Obenhaus and Tom Yellin

Editor, Peter R. Livingston, Jr.

Director of Photography, Erich Roland

Music, Anton Sanko

Co-Producer, William A. Kerig

Line Producer, Line Producer: Stacy Wolberg

Additional Editing, Marc Tidalgo

Associate Producer, Caitlin Costin

Archival Research Supervisor, Libby Kreutz

Photo Animation, Stevie Clifton

Additional Music, Victor Magro

Title Animation, John Bair, Edgeworx

Senior Production Executive, Kayce Freed Jennings

Director of Business Development, Brian Beck

Sound Recordists, Ray Day and Gabriel Monts

Gaffer, Laszlo E. Varga

Assistant Camera, Petr Stepanek