Giorgia Menetre Is Forging a New Path for Women in Telemark

In early December of 2022, a video of a skier using the lowest of telemark styles started oozing its way onto Instagram feeds and forum message boards. Flying down the mountain, face in full smile under an incandescent sun, the skier made fast and deep lunges, the sleeves of their outerwear fluttering in the wind like a flag snapping in a gale.The video, posted by free-heel newschool outfit TELE COLO, soon garnered over a thousand likes on their Instagram page. It would eventually find its way o