Sylvain Saudan (23 September 1936 – 14 July 2024) was a Swiss extreme skier, dubbed "skier of the impossible." He was noted for skiing down large and steep...

anthropologist and academic. Jim Sandral, 91, Australian footballer (Melbourne). Sylvain Saudan, 87, Swiss extreme skier, heart attack. Johann Seitinger, 63, Austrian...

Extreme' in the 1970s. The first practitioners include Swiss skier Sylvain Saudan, who invented the "windshield wiper" turn in the mid-1960s, and in 1967...

Vallençant is the first woman who reaches the summit. Her husband, Sylvain Saudan from Switzerland, performs the first ski descent from the top of an...

Isherwood. 1972: First descent on skis down the sheer southwest face, by Sylvain Saudan, "Skier of the Impossible". 1976: First solo ascent of the Cassin Ridge...

Jacchini, Michele Pala and Lino Pironi. In June 1969, the extreme skier Sylvain Saudan descended the entire Marinelli Couloir on the east face. First solo...

Peruvian lawyer and politician, 91st President of Peru (d. 2006) 1936 – Sylvain Saudan, Swiss skier 1936 – Tareq Suheimat, Jordanian physician, general, and...

|title= (help) Macaigne, Pierre (1983). Le Skier de L'Impossible - Sylvain Saudan - Victoire A ski sur l'Himalaya:8068m. Paris: Publi SA - Éditions Pierre-Marcel...

Graven and Josef Knubel 1970: First ski descent over the west flank by Sylvain Saudan. 1986: Welshman Eric Jones becomes the first person to BASE jump from...

Saudan Couloir by local skiers even before it was part of the ski area, the company eventually had to drop the name when extreme skier Sylvain Saudan...