{"title":"Ambassadors","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"anette-boe","title":"Anette Bøe","description":"Anette grew up in Larvik, Norway. Her very sporty parents taught her all kinds of sports; sailing, skiing, handball and football. However, at the age of 13 she decided to pursue cross-country skiing and had to prove herself very early on against her male training colleagues before she finally made it into the A team. In 1980 she won her first bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Lake Placid and two years later she became world champion in Oslo.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHowever, her greatest successes include the World Championships in Seefeld in 1985, where she won 2 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze medal on Kästle cross-country skis. Today, Anette is back in Norway, running her Ski School in Oslo and Geilo. When she is not teaching, you can find Anette out cross country skiing, running, ski touring, or mountain biking somewhere in the Norwegian mountains.","brand":"Norway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46841281184076,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0311\/6852\/files\/Anettewbsite1800x2000.jpg?v=1756412189"},{"product_id":"griffin-post","title":"Griffin Post","description":"Born in Austria, raised in Idaho, Griffin Post has spent the better part of the last decade traveling the world in search of mountains to ski. Appearing in films by Teton Gravity Research and Warren Miller, Post has made significant descents from the Tetons to the Arctic Circle, earning accolades from ESPN \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eand Powder magazine along the way. Transgressing the boundary between athlete and writer, the two-time US Extreme Freeskiing champion has also written about his adventures — from Alaska’s Brooks Range to the Chilean Andes — in the pages of Powder, Freeskier, and Skiing magazines.","brand":"United States of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46841281642828,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0311\/6852\/files\/Griffinwbsite1800x2000.jpg?v=1756412464"},{"product_id":"herve-barmasse","title":"Hervé Barmasse","description":"Considered a promise of Italian alpine skiing but forced to leave competitions due to a serious accident at the age of 17, Hervé then became an alpinist, ski mountaineering athlete and director of mountain films. His name is linked to important ascents made all over the world. On his home mountain, the Matterhorn, among new, first winter and first solo routes, he is the mountaineer who has made the most exploits.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn May 2017 he climbed the south face of Shishapangma (8027m) in just 13 hours. La montagna dentro, his first literary effort, has been translated into German, French and Spanish.","brand":"Italy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46841281675596,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0311\/6852\/files\/HerveBarmasse.jpg?v=1696330368"},{"product_id":"katja-wirth","title":"Katja Wirth","description":"Katja Wirth was World Cup racer on the ÖSV team and dedicated herself particularly to the speed disciplines. The love of speed has remained to this day, even though ski racing is history. 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It’s where he not only discovered the love of his life, Elena, but also fell in love with the Alps, which now count as his favourite mountain playground, second only to the Alaska Range.","brand":"United States of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46841282429260,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0311\/6852\/files\/MikeArnold.jpg?v=1696330797"},{"product_id":"michael-strasser","title":"Michael Strasser","description":"In 2006 the studied architect decided to give up his office job and to dedicate his life completely to sports. Michael celebrated his first successes in the long distance triathlon, where he was able to win one of the hardest alpine triathlons, the Austria-Extreme ( Ironman distance with 5800 meters altitude difference) several times. With a lot of self-confidence he was looking for a new challenge in 2016: Cairo2Cape. 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