Slide Presentations

Chic gave his first slide show to the Calgary Mountain Club in 1967 after completing the Jasper to Lake Louise Ski Traverse. Since then he has made hundreds of presentations to clubs and conferences. Today Chic has seven professionally produced shows. All images are excellent and are mounted in glass so they project and focus perfectly. Chic’s presentations are a lively mix of humour, exciting stories, philosophy and a love of high places.

Filming the Eiger Sanction
During the summer of 1974 Chic spent seven weeks working with Clint Eastwood, Dougal Haston and Hamish McInnes filming the Hollywood spy thriller ‘The Eiger Sanction’. In this show we take a look behind the scenes at the personalities, the stunts, the adventure and the tragedy (one of the climbers was killed by a rockfall). Then we watch some of the footage of the film with a running commentary describing the actors and the action.

Clint Eastwood (on left) at the bivouac location, while Mike Hoover (back to camera on right) operates camera. Photo Chic Scott

Pushing the Limits, the Story of Canadian Mountaineering
Take a journey through the history of Canadian mountain climbing from the first climbing pioneers to today's sport climbers. Featuring beautiful scenes of Canada’s great mountains, exciting action images and many historic photographs, this presentation captures the adventure of the first ascents and describes the characters who have shaped Canadian mountaineering.

Joe Weiss one of the early ski pioneers in the Rockies (circa 1928)

Powder Pioneers, the Story of Skiing in the Rocky and Columbia Mountains
From the pioneer days of ski jumping at Revelstoke to heli skiing in the Bugaboos; from the golden days of ski lodges at Assiniboine and Skoki to the Grand Traverses of the Rocky and Columbia Mountains, discover the fascinating ski history of western Canada.

The first Swiss guides — Edouard Feuz Sr. (left), and Christian Hasler Sr. (right)

The Guiding Tradition, the Story of the Canadian Mountain Guides
Discover the history of mountain guiding in Canada from the pioneer days of the CPR Swiss Guides in the 1890s to the modern guides of today. Conrad Kain, Edward Feuz Jr., Christian Kaufmann, Hans Fuhrer, Walter Perren, Bruno Engler, Ken Jones, Hans Gmoser and Diny Harrison are just some of the men and women who have contributed to this remarkable story.

Marc Piche skiing Blue Danube

Powder Paradise, Backcountry Skiing in Western Canada
Discover the classic backcountry ski destinations of Western Canada. Enjoy beautiful and exciting images of powder skiing at Rogers Pass, nordic touring in the Rockies, solitude on the Freshfield Icefield, magnificent glaciers on Mount Waddington in the Coast Mountains and the icy heights of a ski ascent of Mount Logan. Canada has some of the best backcountry skiing in the world most of it unknown and uncrowded. Join Chic on a voyage of ski discovery.

The SE Face of Mt. Logan

The Mountains of Canada
This presentation is a combination of the best of the above shows - an outstanding mixture of beautiful scenic images, exciting climbing and skiing shots and fascinating historic photographs. Journey across Canada discovering the magnificent wilderness of BC’s Coast Mountains, the jagged summits of the Columbia Ranges and the storied Canadian Rockies. Travel east to the Laurentians where you will find waterfall ice climbing in the Malbaie Valley and rock climbing at Val David. Journey further east to the Torngats of Labrador and north to the mountainous expanses of Ellesmere Island and the granite walls of Baffin Island in Nunavut, the magic of the Cirque of the Unclimbables in NWT and the frozen majesty of Yukon’s Mount Logan.

Chic Scott on the East Peak of Mt. Logan -1978

The Path of the Mountains
This is Chic Scott’s personal story of his odyssey along the path of the mountains, from the vertical wall of Yamnuska to the Himalaya; from Mount Logan to Hollywood. It is a story of dedication, passion and adventure among the great mountains of the world.

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