Andreas Herranz
Hometown: Izaourt, France | Active: 2017-present | Known for: ninth at the 2024 Chur World Cup big air, French slopestyle and big air titles in 2026, Mediappiness | Disciplines: big air, slopestyle, backcountry freestyle In April 2024, Andreas Herranz moved through the Lyngen Alps on snowshoes with Julian Caillet, Leo Fourcade and Hugo Monmont, carrying shovels into the mountains above the Norwegian fjords. The group spent a month away from prepared snowparks, reaching their terrain without motorized access and shaping freestyle features by hand. Jumps grew as the trip progressed, transferring the movements of park skiing into natural snow.... Read more on the Athlete page
Édouard Thériault - Edjoy
Lorraine, Quebec, Canada | Active: FIS status active; World Cup step-back announced June 2025 | Discipline: freeski big air, slopestyle, rails, creative filming | Verified: 2021 World Championships big air silver, 2019 Junior Worlds slopestyle gold, Beijing 2022 Olympian, World Cup podiums | Current: Edjoy creative ski path Aspen When The Headstand Said Everything The Buttermilk big-air jump sat under Colorado floodlights, with the landing glazed by heavy impacts and the crowd waiting for scores. Édouard Therriault had kicked a ski on takeoff, still completed the trick, then fell through the landing with the kind of chaos that made people keep watching. At X Games Aspen 2022, his rookie appearance did not end with a medal, but it gave Edjoy a clear international image.... Read more on the Athlete page
Eleonora Ferrari
Chamrousse, France | Active: 2018-present public ski record | Focus: jibbing, street skiing, slopestyle, big air, women’s ski projects | Current: K2 Skis athlete Chamrousse Rails After The Storm Chamrousse’s snowpark sits above the Belledonne massif, where wind can polish a rail line before the sun reaches the takeoff. Eleonora Ferrari learned that terrain before her name appeared on FIS sheets or brand pages. The resort’s park was not a giant international course.... Read more on the Athlete page
Hugo Monmont
Hometown: Annecy, France | Born: 2001 | Active: 2019-present | Known for: Mediappiness ski films, Level 1 FilmerUnknown winner in 2026 | Current: skier and filmmaker In April 2024, snowshoes and shovels replaced lifts for Hugo Monmont and the three skiers beside him in Norway. Andreas Herranz, Julian Caillet, Léo Fourcade and Monmont spent a month crossing the snow of the Lyngen Alps on foot to build their own backcountry jumps among the fjords. Monmont was not only skiing: he was also filming the trip that became Smash.... Read more on the Athlete page
Julian Caillet - KNAI
Hometown: Grenoble, France | Active: 2014-present | Known for: 2018/19 Coupe de France slopestyle overall win, Young's World, Mediappiness | Disciplines: slopestyle, big air, backcountry freestyle In April 2024, Julian Caillet, Andreas Herranz, Leo Fourcade and Hugo Monmont moved through the Lyngen Alps on snowshoes with shovels strapped into the day's equipment. Their objective was not an existing terrain park: the four spent a month in northern Norway climbing into the mountains and shaping their own backcountry jumps above the fjords. Caillet had spent years in slopestyle parks and contest lines; in Lyngen, the same freestyle approach had to begin with the approach, the snow surface and the work of building each feature by hand.... Read more on the Athlete page
Mateo Socquet
Hometown: Combloux, France | Active: 2020-present | Known for: Bleu Nuit, Banana Pepper, the Mediappiness Invitational | Disciplines: slopestyle, big air, street style In June 2026, sunlight reflected off the Les 2 Alpes glacier while Matéo Socquet worked around a summer snowpark with Julian Caillet, Hugo Monmont and Andreas Herranz. Rope tows kept the session moving as soft snow changed the feel of every take-off and landing. Before the invited riders arrived, the four had already spent time shaping the terrain themselves.... Read more on the Athlete page
Maxence Gumuchian
A and Bon Diez | Current: freeski judge Rails, jumps and crashes filled Maxence Gumuchian's 2013/14 winter across a succession of Alpine ski areas. A season edit made when he was 13 shows the young French skier moving between park sessions and competitions before returning to Les Deux Alpes for summer training. That early footage fits a career that would later shift away from result sheets and toward collaborative films: first through a generation of French park riders, then inside Hugo Monmont's Mediappiness projects.... Read more on the Athlete page
Maxime Vogt
A and Bon Diez, Movement's Les Frouzes | Disciplines: freestyle, park skiing On 8 November 2024, a seven-minute ski film opened an evening screening at L'Arlequin in Paris. Les Frouzes brought together Maxime Vogt, Mäel Collado, Yan Le Gros, Hugo Monmont and Baptiste Cibat Theil, five French riders skiing for the Swiss brand Movement. A, he also worked behind the camera.... Read more on the Athlete page
Mirco Ferrari
A and Bon Diez | Disciplines: slopestyle, big air In December 2021, Mirco Ferrari joined a group of friends capturing the first footage for Bon Diez at Chamrousse before the crew travelled to Austria for the end of the winter. The setting was familiar territory: Ferrari grew up at the resort below the Belledonne mountains, first skiing alpine disciplines before concentrating on freestyle. His older sister Eleonora Ferrari followed the same path, and both became part of the Dauphiné freestyle group built around big air and slopestyle.... Read more on the Athlete page
Ryan Stevenson
Washington Township, New Jersey, United States | Active public record: 2015-present | Known for: park skiing, Jiberish, SLVSH, Junior Worlds, Woodward Copper | Current: Jiberish rider and park/rail skier Cardrona Wind Over Big Bucks Park The jumps at Cardrona’s Big Bucks Park sat under a hard New Zealand sky, with red event flags snapping near the takeoffs and judges watching every rail touch. Ryan Stevenson came through qualification with a run that mixed technical rail work, double corks, and switch landings into the top score of the heat. That 2018 Junior World Championships moment is still one of the cleanest competition markers in his public record.... Read more on the Athlete page
Simo Peltola
Born: 2001 | Active: 2019-present | Known for: Olympic Winter Games 2022, World Championships and Mediappiness ski films | Current: Finnish World Cup skier | Disciplines: slopestyle, big air Snowpark sessions across Austria, Quebec, the United States and France filled Simo Peltola's 2019/20 winter away from start gates. The Finnish skier joined an international group assembled for Young's World, moving between park jumps and rails with Matej Svancer, Hugo Laugier, Jeremy Pancras and other riders. Hugo Monmont, Julian Caillet, Andreas Herranz and Titouan Goguillon directed the project.... Read more on the Athlete page