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 Recognized Original Talent Helped Define Emergance of Extreme Skiing

Former 12 year member of The North Face Alpine Team. In December 1998, Powder Magazine named Rob as one of the Best 50 Skiers in North America claiming "...widely acknowledged as an extreme skiing pioneer. DesLauriers has set tracks on some of the most exotic slopes ever to be put on film..."
Ski Mountaineering Highlights: 
 
  • Fall 2006, Mt. Everest, Ski from Summit, 29,050'
  • Spring 2006, Kilimanjaro, Uhuru Summit, Tanzania
  • Fall 2005, Vinson Massif, Antartica
  • Spring 2005, Mt. Elbrus, West Summit, NS, Russia 
  • Spring 2004, Denali, Alaska, 20,320' 
  • Fall 2003, Mt. Aspiring, New Zealand 
  • Spring 2003, Grand Teton, Teton Range WY 
  • Spring 1999, 14,800' Mt. Belukha, Central Siberia
  • Summer, 1998, 19,900' Artensonraju, Cordillera Blanca, Puru 
  • Spring, 1997, Aiguille Verte, Whymper Couloir, Alps
  • Fall, 2006 DrohmaCrique, 19,600' Kanchenjunga, Nepal 
  • Spring, 1996, Aiguille du Chardonnet, Northwest Couloir, Alps

Rob DesLauriers early start with skiing (and resort management) began at the age of two on the slopes of Bolton Valley Ski Resort in Vermont. His parents owned, operated and managed the beloved ski area where Rob and his siblings skied every day. This foundation laid groundwork for Rob’s future ski feats ranging from appearances in Warren Miller ski films to a coveted Powder Magazine title as a “Top 50 Skier in North America.”

 

As a professional extreme skier from 1988 to 2000, DesLauriers starred in over 20 ski films and produced 5 ski films as a member of The North Face Alpine Team. Additionally, Rob served as the founder and director of worldwide Extreme Skiing Advanced Ski Clinics 1991-2000.

Rob DesLauriers is also an avid cinematographer, serving as co-founder of Straight Up Films with his brother Eric and Adam. DesLauriers documented the first snowboard descent of Artesonraju in Peru, and in 1999 released a backcountry adventure documentary "Higher on the Mountain." DesLauriers and his brother co-wrote Ski the Whole Mountain, a book on how to ski any terrain.

 

DesLauriers met his wife, Kit in 1999 while on a mountaineering trip to Mount Belukha in Siberia. He accompanied Kit on her quest to become the first person to ski the highest summits on all seven continents, providing video documentation of her feat. With Kit, DesLauriers has skied down Vinson Massif in Antarctica, Mt. Elbrus, Russia; Kilimanjaro, Tanzania; Denali, Alaska and Mount Everest. Rob and Kit live and ski with their two young daughters at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in Teton Village.

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