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"Peter Chrzanowski's life took a dramatic twist at the age of 14 when his dad took the family on a grueling 14-month overland voyage by Volkswagen camper from Canada to southern Argentina's Tierra Del Fuego. The trip changed his life forever. Over the next four decades, he became an extreme skier, paraglide pilot, film maker, journalist and event producer. By 1978, when he was 21, Peter had already organized his first major climbing/skiing expedition and documentary film on Peru's highest peak - Huascaran (6746 m, 22,132 ft), along with French extreme skiing legends, Patrick Vallencant and Jean Marc Boivin. Accidents began to happen. In 1979 he cartwheeled 900 vertical meters (2,700 ft) down a 55 degree face while skiing Peru's Ranrapalca (6746 m, 22132 ft). He miraculously survived while waiting three days for rescue. In Canada, he continued his notable historical first ski descents, including a solo climb and first ski off the ""Monarch of the Rockies"", Mount Robson (2,829 m, 12,982 ft) in August 1983. While attending SFU he continued his films and first ski descents off mountains like Mexico's Popocatepetl; BC's highest peak, Mount Waddington; Mount Serratus; Mount Currie; Siberian Express; and many more. He brought extreme skiing legend Sylvain Saudan (and the name) to Blackcomb's Saudan Couloir. At least 20 films later, with more crashes, torn knee ligaments, and several near-death experiences, he then discovered the arcane sport of paragliding, and brought it to Canada. Then came more severe accidents, including a fractured femur and cracked pelvis, controversial sporting events, and judging films at several mountain film festivals around the world. He judged the World Extreme Skiing Championships in Valdez, Alaska for nine years. Follow Peter's brutally honest autobiography in ""I Survived Myself."" Learn how he has led a life as a black sheep to many in the corporate world -full of controversy and mischievous politics, which he humorously and very candidly reveals in his book. Peter is credited with bringing extreme skiing and paragliding to Canada."

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"Peter is an adventurer specializing in high adrenaline action/adventure documentary films, dramas and photo-journalism. As a film-maker Peter has 30+ years of international experience on a variety of productions and expeditions. He is also a major content producer with new media and an expert at media relations with contacts worldwide. He is a graduate with a BA in Communications from Simon Fraser University.From a very young age Peter was exposed to a life of travel and adventure. By age fourteen Peter had accompanied his familyoverland to eighteen countries from Canada to Tierra Del Fuego, Cape Horn at the tip of South America. Today he claims thisadventure sparked an early love for his work filming and writing about travel, climbing, skiing and adventure. Peter organized his first skimountaineering expedition to Peru at age 17. He climbed and was the first to descend on skis a 19,000 ft. peak. By the age of 21 he was Associate Producer on his first film Ski Peru, which documents an attempt to climb and ski Peru's highest mountain, Huascaran. Theexpedition joined forces with famed French ski alpinists Patrick Vallencant and Jean Marc Boivin. The film went on to win the GoldenSheaf award at Yorkton International Film Festival. By 1983 while attending Simon Fraser University for Film and Communications, Peter founded Extreme Explorations. He speaks four languages, English, Spanish, French and Polish. Extreme Explorations began producing adventure films that involved climbing and skiing all over the world, from volcanoes in Mexico to BC's tallest mountains. They helped popularise the craze known as ""extreme skiing""; in North America. In addition to expedition films, commercials, shooting second unit on features, rock videos and action oriented industrials have been contracted. For commercial television, Peter has produced news magazine format show segments for a variety of programs including: The Journal, BCTV News hour, and Bob Beattie Ski World on ESPN. Because of his extensive knowledge of BC mountain back country, he is a regular location consultant on various Motion Pictures. He has also obtained credits as 35mm Cinematographer on Ski School, an independent theatrical feature film. In 1986 Peter headed a filmmaking team joining in the flight of Odyssey 86. This was a commemorative flight of the first DC 3 to circumnavigate the globe. The trip took two months and passedthrough 28 countries and fifty cities. Peter did a great deal of media relations and pr work representing Canada and the team during thevoyage as well as was shooting a film. In 1987 the film North Face was produced and released to Arts and Entertainment, CBC and theDiscovery Canada proving the longevity of his documentaries. The films which followed included Bungy Jumping, Reel Radical, Northern Rage and a weekly TV show in Whistler. In Reel Radical Peter paraglided off Mt. Waddington's icy summit. international audience. The film also featured world-renowned extreme skier, Sylvain Saudan. (Saudan Couloir on Blackcomb) Then came more films including Valdez GoesExtreme in 1993 which received an award for Creative Excellence in the Chicago International Film festival. By 1994 Peter had co-produced, wrote and directed an entire eight half hour series for Outdoor Life and German Television entitled Whiteout. Peter's projects have included organizing The Multiglisse Traverse, a snowy version of the world famous Eco-Challenge endurance race. He has also consulted several major feature films as location consultant and acted as Associate Producer on Starlight, a dramatic feature starring Rae Dawn Chong, Billy Wirth and country legend, Willie Nelson. Through The Nineties Peter was on the ground floor of organising, then judging WESC, (The World Extreme Skiing Championships in Valdez, Alaska) Over the years he judged nine events in Valdez, one Redbull Extreme, in Chamonix France, and in Crested Butte, Colorado. Another recent film, The Spirit, dedicated to clos"

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