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From the New York Times, an article explaining the explosion on extreme sports into mainstream film:

"THE new documentary “Steep” takes viewers where only the most extreme athlete has dared to go: alongside skiers as an avalanche, which looks more like a river, nearly carries them away; watching another skier narrowly slicing his way through backcountry trees as if he’d sneaked onto a Christmas tree farm; in a helicopter as it approaches a snow-glazed mountain when one of the skiers deposited on it zips down an almost vertical slope.

Had it been made a decade ago, “Steep” would have been relegated to ESPN or the video sections of sports stores. Yet it is being released on Friday in actual theaters by Sony Pictures Classics. “Steep” is a sign of how legitimate so-called action sports have become, and the peculiar ways that this mainstream crossover manifests itself."

Hat tip: Brian 

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