We are excited to let you know that Up There Film Fest selection Skiing Everest will be showing March 18, 2010 at the Beverly Center in Los Angeles, California. If you are in the neighborhood, check this one out. The film was well received here in Bozeman. Folks lucky enough to see the film [...]

Title: UP THERE Film Fest goes bigDate: 2010-02-15
The HSMF’s Up There Film Fest packed in 600 people over two nights to check out Mike Marolt and Les Guthman’s film Skiing Everest and the story of the legendary Jackson Hole Air Force as told in the film Swift, Silent and Deep. With help from industry sponsors [...]

Title: PowderMagazine: 3 HSMF Ski Camp Grad to top 20 list
Description: In its February edition, Powder magazine has named Hans Fund Ski Camp graduates Duncan Adams, Leo Ahrens, and Mike Gardner to its list of top 20 skiers 18 and under. Check out Duncan showing his ski camp form on the cover!!!!
Date: 2010-02-15

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Title: GRANT DEADLINES APPROACHING!!!!
Description: The following deadlines for applications are rapidly approaching.
February 26 for HSMF Education Grants and Scholarships
March 1, 2010 for HSMF Ski Exploration Grants
Applications are accepted through our on line process only. Start by going to the Exploration or Education areas of the website for details on the application. Notification of grant or [...]

Title: Education Grant and Scholarship application deadlineDescription: Education Grant and Scholarship applications are due.Date: 2010-02-26

Title: UP THERE Ski Film Fest
Location: Emerson Center for the Arts in Bozeman, Mt
Description: The Hans Saari Memorial Fund announces its first foray into the world of film fests with the presentation of the UP THERE Ski Film Fest on January 14th and 15th 2010 at the Emerson Center for the Arts in Bozeman, [...]

Join the Hans fund crew in downtown Bozeman for the Christmas Stroll!
Date: 2009-12-05

by Porter Fox
May 8 began as a sunny, bluebird day in Chamonix, France, a rarity in the valley in spring. It ended with a fatal mistake, the silencing of an inspirational voice in skiing, and an added link to an eerie, tragic chain of events in the life of a gifted mountaineer and photographer.
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Hans Saari, ski mountaineer and writer, died Tuesday, May 8, after a fall in the Gervisuiti Couloir on Mont Blac de Tacul, in Chamonix. After losing edge hold on an icy bulge at the top of couloir, Hans took a 3,000 foot fall down the steep and icy chute. At 30 years old, [...]

by Kristoffer Erickson
May 8, 2001, dawned with clear skies and not a whisper of wind throughout the Chamonix Valley–not normal weather for the French Alps at that time of year. It was to be the worst day of my life.
For years, the famous Gervasutti Couloir on Mont Blanc du Tacul, high above Chamonix, had [...]