Aspen, CO – Greg Stump’s 1988 film Blizzard of Aahhh’s launched the career of skiing bad boy Glen Plake and revolutionized the idea of what U.S. big mountain skiers could accomplish. It was so monumental, in fact, that Skiing Magazine in 1999 named Stump one of the 25 most influential skiers of all time. It’s been years since Stump’s name has graced the silver screen of skiing. That is, up until this week.nStump’s newest ski film, Legend of Aahhh’s, was previewed Friday night at Aspen’s Wheeler Opera House. Twenty years after unleashing Blizzard of Aahhh’s upon the world, Greg Stump returns to explore the history of ski films in his latest movie.

In his first ski film in a decade, Stump pursues and captures the culprits behind the evolution of skiing and ski films from freestyle to the extreme movement. Stump uses a semi-autobiographical approach to explore the history from 1920’s Germany to the modern athletes whose athletic and aerial prowess awes today’s viewers.

“Greg Stump is a long time friend and a creative genius,” said David Perry, Senior Vice President of Aspen Skiing Company. “He continues to push the envelope with fresh aspects of skiing and his passion shows through every movie. For us to see his new film first is a great honor that I am personally very excited about.”

Legend of Aahhh’s focuses on how one ski movie, Stump’s 1988 classic The Blizzard of Aahhh’s, came to be, and in telling the tale retraces the history of all ski flicks, from their origins to the modern day, while acknowledging the contributions of film makers such as Leni Riefenstahl, Otto Lang, John Jay, Warren Miller and Dick Barrymore. Stump himself appeared in Miller’s and Barrymore’s ski films as an athlete.

Legend makes the case that The Blizzard of Aahhh’s and Stump ushered in the cultural phenomenon that is today’s world of extreme sports. Blizzard had the great good fortune to not only tell a compelling story with a memorable cast – Scot Schmidt, Glen Plake and Mike Hattrup – it captured mainstream attention that gave the emerging extreme movement momentum. Unseen footage and interviews in Legend give a unique view into the amazing moment that changed an entire genre of film.