Kilian Jornet presents the documentary "Troll Wall" the descent of the highest vertical wall in Europe

The video shows the first skiing descent in Fiva, a route located in the Trolltind, where the Troll Wall, the highest vertical wall in Europe and which Jornet completed in February of the 2018

The piece also collects testimonies and narrates the progression of Kilian Jornet as a slope skier

"The line where the FIVA road goes through caught my attention since I moved to Norway but it took more than two years to find the perfect day to try the descent. This mini documentary narrates this descent and also a little history of how I started skiing and why it is a sport that I find so interesting", Explained Kilian Jornet

The Troll Wall (Trollveggen in Norwegian and literally meaning "troll wall") is a vertical wall of 1.100m of unevenness on the north face of the Trolltindan (1.788m) located in the Romsdalen valley, in Norway.

On the right side of this wall is "Fiva", One mythical route in the history of Norwegian mountaineering and the first to overcome this great wall. For years it has been in the minds of many skiers and mountaineers. It is a route of 1.700m with 55º-60º of medium inclination and the only one in the whole wall that is not vertical.

Jornet started thinking about this project two years ago, when he moved to live in the area. Since then, he spent hours studying the line, recognizing it and waiting for the best conditions to try the first descent on skis. Last year's snowfall propitiated the moment:

"On February 17, 2018 I went to do a reconnaissance of the route. However, I immediately realized that the conditions were very good.

In ski slopes the perfect conditions do not exist, so I realized that I had to try it out yes or yes. It was a very interesting and demanding experience. The upper part is probably the most complicated, since they are probably the most vertical 200m I have ever skied.

Then came a fairly narrow 400m of couloir and then 100m with more skiable sections but with some very icy and vertical parts. It is a very exposed route where you have to be very concentrated, but in the end the result was very satisfactory"

In the documentary,This first descent took place but also the progression of Kilian Jornet as slope skier.

Thus, it counts on the testimonies of outstanding skiers of the sector like Vivian Bruchez, mentor of Kilian Jornet and that explains: "Kilian comes from the ski of mountain but until 2012 it had not begun with the ski of slope. He is a person who learns very fast and soon learned to combine his skiing skills to bring them to this new discipline. "

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