Greg Hill is a modern day explorer who skins his way into the unknown. He has skied in Alaska, New Zealand, Europe and all over North America but will mostly be found exploring his home range; the Columbia mountains. He lives in Revelstoke and has been pushing the backcountry boundaries ever since he moved there in 2000. With limitless mountains at his disposal Greg is always searching for a new line, or a new peak he has not skied before.
In 2003 he traversed the Northern Monashees a 250km, 100 000 foot epic traverse. Energized by being the first to traverse this range Greg managed to summit 21 peaks over the 21 days of the traverse. Over the years Greg has toured 20,30,40 and finally 50 000 feet in a day. Setting the standard for what can be done in the backcountry, and also earning him a world record in "most vertical climbed and skied in 24 hours."
In 2004-05 Greg toured a million feet of backcountry skiing over the course of 145 days. In 2006-07 he toured 80 ten thousand foot days, totaling 990,000 feet for the season.
Since then Greg has changed his focus a bit and started to film and document his adventures, instead of selfishly shredding powder he is using his energy to film and capture the essence of what he and his friends get up to. He runs a blog on which he shares his adventures which can be linked through his website greghill.ca
In the summer of 2008 he compiled his best footage from the winter 07-08 and created "The Unbearable Lightness of Skiing" which won best short movie in the New Zealand Mountain film festival and also made the Finals in the Banff International Mountain film festival and is also on their World Tour.
In 08-09 Greg continued to film and document his adventures, capturing many amazing moments. His last day of the season was a one day ascent and descent of Mt-Blanc, where he skied the North face in prime powder conditions and made a great movie out of the day. Currently he is working on his best of from last year, Highway Lines, which he will be entering into film festivals around the world.
Greg was recently interviewd (in French!) for Canoe.tv