DAY IN LIFE - SNOWPARK 2 ALPES

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

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

Hometown: Alpe d'Huez, France | Born: 2001 | Active: 2022-present | Known for: Olympic Winter Games 2026, French slopestyle title in 2025, Banshee Ken | Sponsors: Faction Skis | Disciplines: slopestyle, big air In September 2025, Noah Viande skied Geiloparken in Norway for Banshee Ken, his introduction to the Faction global team. The edit puts his rail skiing at the centre: a switch cork 630 into a back 270 and consecutive 360 swaps into a front 270 are among the tricks identified from the session. Viande had grown up in Alpe d'Huez riding a PVC setup in his parents' garden, and the Norwegian project carried that rail-focused background into a purpose-built park with Robin Gerbelot behind the camera.... Read more on the Athlete page

Les 2 Alpes is a high-altitude French resort in the Oisans | Known for: skiing to 3600 metres, a 2300-metre continuous vertical, Freestyle Land, glacier training and a snowpark culture dating to 1994 | Season: November 28 2026 to July 4 2027 across winter, high-altitude and training periods | Best for: park progression, long-season training, high-altitude piste skiing and freeride From The 3600 Metre Glacier To Mont De Lans At 1300 The high-altitude sector of Les 2 Alpes reaches 3600 metres above the Oisans valleys, while a complete descent can continue toward Mont de Lans at approximately 1300 metres. That produces a maximum uninterrupted vertical of about 2300 metres without taking another lift, one of the defining numbers of the resort. The current ski area contains 96 pistes and 220 kilometres of marked skiing across roughly 420 hectares, with 75 percent of the domain located above 2000 metres.... Read more on the Location page

French freeski film collective from Les Deux Alpes | Known for: park edits, a DIY visual language and the backcountry film Smash | Focus: building rider-led projects that connect French freestyle sessions with Nordic travel and an emerging local event format From Les Deux Alpes sessions to a French film collective Mediappiness is a French freeski crew and film collective rooted in Les Deux Alpes. It should be understood first as a rider-led production group rather than a ski manufacturer or a conventional media company. Its public work is built around the people who ski, film, edit and travel together, with Hugo Monmont repeatedly credited as the central filmmaker and editor.... Read more on the Sponsor page