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Kristen Ulmer (born September 8, 1966) is a former professional extreme skier who retired from the sport in 2003 and is now a mental health professional.
Born and raised in the small town of Henniker, New Hampshire, she moved to Salt Lake City, Utah in 1985 to attend the University of Utah. In 1986, she started competing in mogul skiing and filming extreme ski movies, which led to her embarking on a professional ski career that lasted for almost two decades. Since retiring in 2003, she has been studying, teaching, speaking and writing on the subjects of fear and anxiety. [1]
Ulmer was on the US Ski Team for moguls in 1991. She has received praise from many different ski publications, with some, like the Powder magazine, naming her as one of the greatest professional female skiers of her time. She was inducted into the U.S Ski Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2018. [2] [1] She is known for jumping off up to high cliffs, throwing flips, and for ski mountaineering such as the first female ski descent of Wyoming's Grand Teton in 1997. [3]
An avid rock and ice climber, para glider pilot, adventure cyclist, and kite-boarder, Ulmer was voted by the outdoor industry in a 2000 Women's Sports and Fitness magazine poll as the most extreme woman athlete in North America. She eventually retired from professional athletics in 2003.
Alongside her ski career, Ulmer was known for writing in magazines such as Skiing, Ski, Powder, Maxim, Details, and Outside.
Ulmer coaches athletes in various sports disciplines and runs mindset-only ski camps called The Art of Fear ski camps, at Alta, Utah. She also works as a Zen Therapist helping people with emotional issues and speaks at events and conferences on the subjects of Fear and Anxiety.
Ulmer's book The Art of Fear challenges existing norms about what to do about fear and offers an alternative approach to resolving anxiety issues. This book and other media originating from her have been spread through NPR, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, USA Today, Tim Ferriss’s Tribe of Mentors, The Robb Report, The Megyn Kelly Show, and more.
She attends the Burning Man festival in Nevada each year and is known alongside her ex-husband for building and bringing the Praying Mantis and Scorpion art cars. The fire-breathing Praying Mantis can now be seen at the Container Park in Downtown Las Vegas. [4] [5]
Extreme skiing is performed on long, steep slopes in mountainous terrain. The French coined the term 'Le Ski Extreme' in the 1970s. The first practitioners include Swiss skier Sylvain Saudan, who invented the "windshield wiper" turn in the mid-1960s, and in 1967 made the first descents of slopes in the Swiss, French and Italian Alps that were previously considered impossible. Saudan's 'first descent' in America was at Mt. Hood March 3, 1971. Early American practitioners include Bill Briggs, who descended Grand Teton on June 15, 1971. The Frenchmen Patrick Vallençant, Jean-Marc Boivin and Anselme Baud and the Italians Stefano De Benedetti and Toni Valeruz were among those who further developed the art and brought notoriety to the sport in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Picabo Street is an American former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist. She won the super G at the 1998 Winter Olympics and the downhill at the 1996 World Championships, along with three other Olympic and World Championship medals. Street also won World Cup downhill season titles in 1995 and 1996, the first American woman to do so, along with nine World Cup downhill race wins. Street was inducted into the National Ski Hall of Fame in 2004.
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