The Eye Of the Condor

DUBSATCH COLLECTIVE*
photos: Juan Luis De Heeckeren
*judges choice for best photo portfolio

DISCRETE
photos: Chris Bezamat

K2
photos: Alex O’Brien

KLINT
photos: Chris Lisle

Mas Cervezas

Brian Kish avoiding the sharks.

Tanner Rainville carving switch pow turns.

Leo Ahrens getting after it for team Dubsatch at sunrise. 

Team Optimus Prime taking flight in the sun.

Alex Obrien going over his spanish reading with Sean Pettit for team K2.

Sean Pettit slashes Chilean Pow for team k2.

photos: Rodrigo Fernandez

photos: Tom Winter

Team Optimus Prime taking advantage of that bluebird day and taking flight!

photos: Augustina Lallana

Snow has been falling for about two days in La Parva. 

Team KLINT does not mind hanging out in the village on a grey day.

Brain Kish from team KLINT slays a Chilean handrail. 

Brain Kish gettin’ greasy for KLINT

photos: Tom Winter

Athletes have arrived, the show is about to take flight. Check out some photos from La Parva as the athletes arrive.

Welcome to Chile!

La Parva

McConkey’s and La Chimenea

Rachael Burks sampling the goods.

photos: Tom Winter

Recent storms and ample snowfall has primed conditions for La Parva’s Eye Of The Condor event. The unique photo and video competition features teams battling over 5 days (July 30 – August 4) to produce the most compelling photo portfolio and 3-5 minute video segment. Some of the word’s best athletes will be participating, including Sean Petit, Pep Fujas, Tanner Rainville, J.T. Holmes and more.

Recent snowfall includes a storm that dropped 70 cm last week. And conditions are expected to get better. Weather reports for the Santiago area are predicting good flows of moisture into the region through the middle of next week, with a high probability of more snow accumulations for La Parva and the surrounding mountains.

“The skiing has been amazing over the past week,” says Rodrigo Medina, La Parva Director of Sales and Business. “And with more snow on the way, we expect conditions to be even better for the athletes and their teams.”

The talent pool for The Eye Of The Condor is deep, including teams from K2, KLIИT, Discrete, Dubsatch, and Optimus Prime. Highlights include K2’s Sean Petit, winner of the Red Bull Coldrush and Linecatcher competitions; Dubsatch’s Leo Ahrens, one of the hottest young athletes in big-mountain skiing, and owner of the North Face Young Gun title in 2009; Optimus Prime’s J.T. Holmes who is currently ranked 16th in the world on the Freeride World Tour and KLIИT’s Tanner Rainville who finished 8th in the 2008 X Games Slopestyle.

“These are some of the best athletes in the world,” adds Medina, “The talent here represents the best athletes in skiing today, and I expect that the inaugural Eye Of The Condor event will set the bar very high for years to come.”

The Eye Of The Condor will award cash prizes to the best video and photography portfolio while also providing a forum for broader discussion, with seminars, photo retrospectives and other events that seek to examine the roll that action sports and photography play in marketing and brand development.

La Parva’s Eye OF The Condor is proud to announce a world-class line up of athletes, photographers and videographers for the premier of one of the world’s most unique photo and video competitions.

Featuring teams that battle over 5 days to produce the most compelling photo portfolio and 3-minute video segment, the Eye Of The Condor will be hosting some of the best known names in skiing.

Currently, the talent packed pool includes teams from K2, KLIИT, Discrete, Dubsach, and Optimus Prime. These athletes are some of the best in the world, with proven results at many different levels, from numerous film and television appearances to podium finishes in the most important and prestigious events around the globe.

Participants include Rachel Burks (Discrete), who films with Teton Gravity Research and who has podium finishes in some of the most important big-mountain freeriding events in the world. Burks is joined on the Discrete team by Julan Carr,and Parker Cook.

For K2, Sean Petit and Pep Fujas are joined by Andy Mahre, with Alex OBrien holding down camera duties. The resumes of all of K2’s team members are highly impressive. Petit comes to La Parva after an impressive North American campaign, where he chalked up victories at both the Red Bull Coldrush and Linecatcher competitions. Fujas is the owner of a sliver medal in slopetsyle at the 2003 Winter X Games and numerous film appearances and Mahre, the son of Olympian Steve, is a phenomenal athlete and entrepreneur in his own right, having founded production company Nimbus Independent and having been featured in many ski films.

Other headliners include Dubsatch’s Leo Ahrens, one of the hottest young athletes in big-mountain skiing, and owner of the North Face Young Gun title in 2009; J.T. Holmes and Tim Dutton (Optimus Prime). Holmes is currently ranked 16th in the world on the Freeride World Tour and one of the most recognized B.A.S.E. Jumpers on the planet. Dutton owns a 3rd place finish in 2010 at the Freeride de Chamonix Mont Blanc world tour event and has filmed with Matchstick Productions and Warren Miller.

Also in the mix is Tanner Rainville who heads up a young KLIИT team. Rainville has an impressive resume, including 3rd at the 2008 North American Open Slopestyle, 8th place in the 2008 X Games Slopestyle, 1st place in the 2007 Tignes Airwaves Big Air, and 2nd place in the 2007 WSI Big Air.

“We are very excited to host these athletes,” says Rodrigo Medina, La Parva Director of Sales and Business. “The inaugural year of this event is setting a very high standard and I expect that the competition will produce some amazing results.”

In addition to the competition aspect, which will award cash prizes to the best video and photography portfolio, the Eye Of The Condor provides a forum for broader discussion, with seminars, photo retrospectives and other events that seek to examine the roll that action sports and photography play in marketing and brand development.

Team Rosters

Discrete
Photo/Video: Will Wissman, John Roderick
Rachel Burks
Julian Carr
Parker Cook

Dubsach
Photo/Video: Steve Lloyd
Leo Ahrens
Zach Halverson
Carston Oliver

K2
Photo/Video: Alex O’Brien
Pep Fujas
Andy Mahre
Sean Petit

KLIИT
Photo/Video: Christopher Lisle, Ben Grunow
Will HIbbs
Brian Kisch
Tanner Rainville

Optimus Prime
Photo/Video: athletes
Tim Dutton
Andy Farrington
J.T. Holmes
Mike Swanson

With commitments from world class athletes and photographers, including the K2 Factory Team, La Parva Chile is announcing the Eye Of The Condor, a unique event scheduled for July 30 – August 5, 2011.

“The Eye Of The Condor combines world class photographers and videographers with athletes to create a unique competition which puts brands against each other,” says La Parva’s Director of Corporate Sales and Marketing Rodrigo Medina. “Adam Clark came to me with this idea several months ago, and now the vision has become a reality and this is the first event of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, and everyone at La Parva is extremely excited to be part of this world class competition.”

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