My Wild Home // The Australian Alps
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- We ventured deep into the Aussie backcountry with pro skier Coen Bennie-Faull to discover what fuels his fire. This is the Australian Alps as you've never seen them before.
Skiers
Coen Bennie-Faull
Will Nelson
Narration
Coen Bennie-Faull
Filmed and Edited
Hayden Griffith (www.haydengriffith.com)
Production Agency
We Are Explorers (www.weareexplorers.co)
Soundtracks
Tony Anderson - Face of the Father
Tony Anderson - No Place on Earth
Production sponsored by:
Arc'teryx Outdoor Clothing (www.arcteryx.com)
Suunto Watches (www.suunto.com)
Osprey Packs (www.ospreypacks.com)
Nemo Tents (www.nemoequipment.com)
Stanley Flasks (www.stanleytools.com)
Find us on Social Media
► Like on Facebook: / weareexplorersanz
► Follow on Instagram: / we_are_explorers
► Follow on Pinterest: www.pinterest....
► Follow on TikTok: / we_are_explorers
For a regular dose of adventure inspo to your inbox: bit.ly/Subscrib...
Read More: weareexplorers...
Inspiring. Your dad left you with a wonderful legacy.
damn there are a lot of non-Australian's in the comments that must seem to think Australia is just desert lol, even tho a huge amount of the country is desert we have beautiful mountains, in fact the great dividing range, which is one of the longest ranges in the world runs down the eastern coast of Australia and has a lot of beautiful sites
i thought y'all just had kangaroos and dingoes
@@alexhunt. same lol
@@alexhunt. We've got everything man. Massive desert, lush tropical rainforests, endless beaches, hundreds of miles of snow capped mountains, big cities, green farmland, wild, untouched temperate forests, and ocean, miles and miles of ocean.
The mountains aren't humongous, but they are mountains and there is quite a lot of snow.
@@alexhunt. There's a sub-species of dingo with thicker fur that live in the high country.
Fun fact: Australia has the largest ski resort in the southern hemisphere. Also, at least 67% of the Australian landmass is *not* actual desert or semi-arid, but rather a combination of many different vegetations, like shrubland, mallee forest, tropical savanna, open and closed woodland, rainforest etc.
Incredible. Australian Alps are amazing 🇦🇺 You are speechless when you find yourself standing before such majesty. I adore mountains. They remind me of the wonderful Andes.
Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷
Great views, skiing and filming thank you. It allows me to show where Charles Anton took me touring during my September school holidays in 1950. It also allowed my younger daughter Melysha to show me where she went snow camping and skiing from Illawong lodge in 2020
2:15 wow! 👍👌
Hi gents, amazing, spectacular. How truely magnificent is Australian backcountry. Well done.
Thank you, we really appreciate that!
Thank you. Fantastic.
Nice video mate. That's why I love the back country and mountains too.
Always was always will be. ⚫️🟡🔴
Beautiful
Beautiful.
This is just beautiful. Wonderfully shot and produced. Quite moving
Very good video, hope you guys film more clips of the Alps!!
Sabhyujai Vinodansh Australia mate
Incredible Australia!
Loved that calming voice with the calming music, nicely done video
Brilliant production! Beautiful story.
Cheers Andrew!
It's unbelievable how many in the comments have no clue that Australia has snow and mountains lol Australia isn't just desert!
Oh my I did not know that Australia had a mountain range with snow. This is rocky mountain status.
Its not quite the rocky mountains, but there are some large snowfields here. Most of this footage is from the main range of the Snowy Mountains (which are obviously named). But there are many more. The Australian Alps, just the national and state park, is about 1 million hectares (over 2 million acers), not including the Snowy Mountains. All of that is covered in snow come winter. The whole alps, the wider range, is about 400 kilometres long. On a good year we get more snowfall that Switzerland.
Fun fact: the world's first incorporated ski club was formed at a place called Kiandra in the Snowy Mountains in the 1860's (not sure of the exact year) by three Norwegians who came there during the Kiandra gold rush, although the Skiing Museum in Oslo credits Norway with the first ski club in the same year. Can't let the Aussies get one up on the Norwegians. And Tasmania occasionally gets mid- summer blizzards in the Central Highlands & it snowed on Mt Wellington just west of Hobart on Christmas day (that's summer in the southern hemisphere).
And we're not very good at naming places here in Oz. Mountains that receive snow in winter? Let's call them the ...... Snowy Mountains. Catchy.
There are a surprising number of Aussies working in ski resorts in Canada & the US. The more hard-core Aussie skiers go over to New Zealand; they have bigger mountains & better powder & it isn't much more expensive than skiing in Australia.
You don't climb up our tallest mountain, Mt Kosciuszko. You hike up it. It's the only tallest peak (?) of a continent that you can drive up (in a 4WD, that is).
That's beautiful, I must visit this place, not many people are aware.
it's really amazing stay safe and keep healthy Good luck And God Bless
I’m an Australian and didn’t even know this existed like I knew over on the east coast it’s like hilly but not like this
Nice one. Great shots. 👍
Appreciate it Nathan!
It's so great up there
Epic video fellas.
Cheers Dan!
Nice!
Beautiful thanks for sharing
Those are not high mountains like we have in Indian Himalayas but still beautiful
Awesome
was confused how Australians were in skiing events in Beijing 2022 and here I am now lol
2:30 Dang ... a stunning sight! Where is that in Victoria or NSW?
This was shot in NSW. Crazy huh?!
@@WeAreExplorers Yup. I was there on top of Mount Kosciuszko back in April, 2011. Unfortunately, a month shy of the first snowfall. Stunning scenery nonetheless.
At 2:30, was that at Mount Kosciuszko, or somewhere else, like Mt Perisher or Blue Cow etc?
Fun fact the Australian alps get more snow than the Switzerland alps.
Btw I was meant to go to Sydney, Melbourne and the snowy mountains this year but ya know covid there is no snow in gladstone/ central queensland so that sucks
That is a fun fact! Ah, that's very unfortunate but there's always next year.
im going this august
@@tiff8698 Hope you find some pow!
Boneless EXP
The Australian Alps get
more snow by area than
Switzerland, but not by
volume.
@@xaj1543 Yes, important clarification. Snow falls on a greater area of land; not as surprising when you remember how tiny Switzerland is by comparison. (Australia is about 186 times as big as Switzerland) But in Oz most of the cover is very thin.
Damn, I didn't know we have snow and ice world in Australia.
You guys using the Kunai tent? If so how do you find it? I’ve been looking at it for similar adventures round feathertop and crosscut saw although this year has turned into another lockdown winter for Victoria.
So, where is this ?
I've Skied Buller, Falls, Hotham, Baw Baw, & all over N.Z. but never seen anything like this in OZ
I think most of this footage is from the main range of the Snowy Mountains, the west face I think. You've seen Feathertop and Razorback before right?
hotham backcountry, I live in hotham and the backcountry is from what I think the best in the country (idk there might be somewhere really good I dont know about)
@@louisthunder10 Most of this footage is from NSW mate; Watson's Crags in the Snowy Mountains.
Had no idea….how you get there…?
Drive
much for snowmobiling out there? got a pair of 21 kahos sleds that can be shipped
Heaps. Massive amounts. But it’s illegal.
thought it was Norway or the
Alps.
Turns out there's some beautiful twists and turns in the Aussie Alps, you just need to know where to look!
Thats very flattering, Lars-Gunnar. We don't really do mountains very well. We used to have mountains in the centre of Australia that possibly rivaled the Himalayas in height, but that was about 500 million years ago. Damn.
I didn’t here a mention of the Arctic kangaroo? Pretty rare these days.
You forgot to mention the Australian Penguin 😉
@@shatnermohanty6678 funny you should say that, because we do actually have penguins in Australia! They’re called fairy penguins or little penguins
@@Fitzroyfallz only people with genuine knowledge would understand my comment 🙌
Is that really Australia????
Yeah!
King Australia is a very big country, dear. Its not only cities and Outback.
@@tylerdavidson2400 eh it ain't that big
@Harry Banner yoyhoyhoyhoy grab the didgeridoo
Jackson Hayes if you don’t think it’s big, try driving from Perth to Sydney.
Where is this in Australia ??
The backcountry region around the Western Faces of the Snowy Mountains!
@@WeAreExplorers its at mt kosiosko in NSW.
Watsons Crags, NSW, Australia
@@Luca-ft1kv or Kosciuszko National Park, correct spelling, I'm sure.
@@marekkelin1181 it's Australia, not Austria.
The video doesn’t say that most of winter it’s skiing ice and they got the perfect powder window.
Don’t think you will be skiing that pow if you move there 😂
It’s not just ice man, we get plenty of fresh snow days. I wouldn’t call it powder but I had some epic days in 22. Some of the best skiing I’ve ever had. Even when it gets firm because most days the high is above freezing, by mid morning it’s nicely soft and holds an edge well. The conditions in Australia are just like the US east coast.
How high are these Mountains? Are they close to South Pole?
2,200 meters (~6,000 feet), no where near the south pole. About 36 degrees south (as far south as San Francisco is north).
Do aboriginals ski? They must have invent some kind of skis or sleds during tens of thousands years living in Australia.
YPO6
No they don’t.
Not at all.
Umm never saw a house,. Doubt it's true
this is the Australian Alps, it's not a residential area
Its a national park you moron.
Alps? More like… hills
Beautiful.
Beautiful