Professional skier heliskis in Haines
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TweetAmerican professional big mountain freeskier Lexi DuPont is currently in Haines heliskiing with SEABA. She is an athlete for BLANK collective films and on Eddie Bauer’s First Ascent guide team.
DuPont started out on skis at the age of two. Her mother, freestyle skier Holley DuPont, was one of the first females to land a backflip on skis. Her parents (Holley and Chris DuPont) along with other members of her family visited Haines about two weeks ago with Stellar Adventure Travel.
Growing up in Sun Valley and Boulder, she pursued ski racing, competing on the Sun Valley ski team. She attended Endicott College in Massachusetts on a sailing scholarship but after a year decided to transfer to the University of Colorado and join their Freestyle Ski Team. She entered the Freeskiing World Tour in 2009 at the age of 20. DuPont lives in Sun Valley in a 500-square foot geodesic dome when she is not traveling the world. She is eight generations out from Éleuthère Irénée DuPont, a French chemist who brought gunpowder to the U.S.
“I’ve struggled with having this household name and being connected to such a powerful family built on so much destruction. It has been a huge conflict my entire life, knowing that they’ve created these really harmful chemicals that have had a negative impact on the environment,” DuPont said. I’ve accepted it and learned how to take some of those daggers and evil things and turn them into positives. Here I am coming from the family that invented plastic, yet I’m plastic free and living in a fully passive home. There are no more excuses; we can all do the right thing.”
DuPont has been skiing in Alaska for more than 10 years and has been called one of the best big mountain female skiers in the world.
“Alaska is real scary,” DuPont said. “It demands all of your attention and all of your practice and all of your history.”
This is her 12th time visiting Haines and skiing the big lines complements of some of the highest coastal mountains in the world. You can watch her recently-released ski movie, “Shaped by Descent” about her time in Haines on iTunes.
