Sina Candrian grew up in the mountains and at 5 years old she was already amazing on the board. She has been a professional Snowboarder since 2005 and participates in a number of competitions around the world. She got the 4th place in Slopestyle at the Sochi Winter Olympic Games. Beyond the competitions, she loves riding in powder snow with friends and like-minded people. She aspires at enjoying this activity for many years to come, that is why she is PRO SNOW.

Nicolas Müller is a world class snowboarder. Competing at every important contest until 2005, he then decided to turn his back to competition and stop the never ending “always higher always better”. Instead, he now rides for the feeling: serenity, style and be part of the mountain is what he aspires to. He lives in Laax and says: “… I am truly myself when I am on the mountain”. That’s why he takes a stand for climate protection and shares the PRO SNOW message.

Citation from an interview with Der Zeit (2013)

Born in Klosters, Seraina Boner is a gifted Swiss cross-country skier, competing since 1998 in world-class competitions including the Winter Olympics of Torino and Sochi. She specializes since 2010 in long distances and delivers amazing performances in the Ski Classics and the FIS Marathon Cup. Climate Change has global and local impacts. It affects not only her favorite sport but also the mountain community that saw her growing up. That is why Seraina is PRO SNOW.

In his twenties, the young snowboarder and freestyler spends his free time on the slopes. Myrionymos combines snowboarding and filming and creates exciting videoclips of his Laax Surf Club friends. Because he wants to enjoy crazy tricks and films in the beautiful white landscapes in the future, Myrionymos is PRO SNOW.

Giulia Tanno is a promising young freeskier from Lenzerheide, competing at the highest level in Slopestyle and Big Air around the world. In 2012, she started taking part in the FIS and AFP World Tour competitions. During the 2016/2017 season, Giulia reached the podium with an impressive second place at the Worldcup in El Colorado (Chile) as well as a third place at the Winter X-Games 2017 in Aspen (USA), in the Big Air discipline. Giulia is PRO SNOW.

As Winterthur native, he didn’t exactly grow up close to the slopes. Kalle Koblet is nevertheless one of the most promising athletes of he swiss boarder cross team. For practice, Kalle is often at Flumserberg, which he calls his «homemountain». In the 2016/2017 season, he won gold at the junior world championships in the czech republic. He is now on his way to the very top! Kalle Koblet is a direct witness of the consequences of climate change on european glaciers. Therefore, he is PRO SNOW.

Sandro Viletta grew up in La Punt-Chamues-ch in the mountains of Engadin. After a remarkable  success  at the Junior World Championships at the Mont Sainte- Anne he took first place in the World Cup Race in 2006 in Levi. Serious injuries held him back but he never gave up. His biggest success was achieved in 2014 at the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi winning a gold medal in Super-Combination. He aligns himself with our planet and the valuable snow. He is PRO SNOW!

The Samedaner Glaciologist Dr. Felix Keller is Co- Leader of the Institute and lecturer at the Academia Engadinia as well as a visiting lecturer at the ETH. In his job he is confronted daily with climate change. With different projects he commits to saving the glaciers. One of the projects is artificial snowmaking on the Morteratsch Glacier another one is the recycling of meltwater for ensuring drinking waterreserves  for future generations. Felix Keller is PRO SNOW.

Skier, Marc Berthod grew up in Engadin. Since he was a boy his passion was snow. Thanks to his victory at the Kuonisbärgli (Adelboden) after starting in 60th place he is known all over the world. Since then, he succeeded at several  other World Cups and won two bronze medals at the World Championship. After finishing his career as a Skier he started as a Co-Commentator at SRF in the 2017/2018 season. In this way he keeps his connection to the wintersport. He is PRO SNOW.

Reto Kestenholz grew up in the Swiss Mountains near Bern. He is a member of the Ride Greener association who’s goal it is to motivate freeriders to respect the environment and protect the climate.  In Ride Greener’s movie Steps, Reto Kestenholz demonstrated that stunningly beautiful ski and snowboard footage can be taken with minimal CO2 emissions. Wintersports can and should be as close to nature as possible. Reto is PRO SNOW. 

In the village of Speicher 940 meters high, Yannick grew up with snow. He quickly developped a passion for wintersports. As cofounder of the Laax Surf Club, he spends every possible second of free time on his board, either on a glacier in Summer in Zermatt or in Graubünden during the winter months. Yannick measures the importance of snow for the swiss tourism and for himself, as well as the impact of climate change on the future of snow. Yannick is PRO SNOW.

On a board since 2001, Alessandro did not leave the scene since then. He reached a professional level in two years. His favourite disciplines are Half Pipe and Big Air in snow, and Wakeboard on water. Alessandro won first place at the Suzuki Open of 2003 and then the Kaunertal Opening in Austria. He participated to all the large competitions, be it the US Open or the Worltour. Native from Hamburg, Alessandro spends a lot of his time in Switzerland, either snowboarding or shooting and producing snowboard films. Alessandro loves real snow, and is therefore PRO SNOW.

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Alessandra discovered her enthusiasm for snow sports early on through her visits to relatives and skiing holidays in Valais. Her passion has grown over the years and she couldn’t imagine a winter without snow. During her exchange year in California Alessandra was part of the snowboard team and during her intermediate year she worked as a ski instructor in Graubünden. Today it is no longer a matter of course to be able to enjoy the snow. In order to protect and maintain this privilege, Alessandra is committed to the beautiful Swiss Alps and PRO SNOW.

At the age of two Tim stood for the first time on skis and at the age of seven already on snowboard. Since then, winter sports have been part of his life and Tim has made it his profession as a snow sports instructor and as an expert in the training of snowboard instructors. Through his daily work and leisure time, which he likes to spend in the snow as well, he very often feels the consequences of climate change. So that he can continue to live out his profession and above all his passion for winter sports, Tim is PRO SNOW.

Luana Flütsch (1995) lives in St. Antönien, Graubünden. At three, she was already skiing and her passion got bigger and bigger. As member of the Swiss-Ski Team, Luana was several times on the podium of the European Cup and she started taking part in the World Cup in 2018. Luana feels close to nature and ist committed to protect the climate. She would like her future children to also enjoy skiing and ski touring and to show them the beauty of winters and white summits. This is why she is PRO SNOW.