In the world of big-mountain skiing, Trevor Petersen was a legend. His blond ponytail flying behind him, he appeared in countless ski films, on the cover of magazines, and was the very embodiment of extreme skiing in the 1980s and early 90s.

And then it all came to an end. On February 26, 1996, while skiing in Chamonix, France—the so-called Death Sport Capital of the World—an avalanche swept Trevor away. His body was found sitting up in the snow, as if gazing at the mountains he so loved.

Nearly a decade later, Trevor’s 15-year-old son, Kye Petersen, a rising star in his own right, travels to Chamonix to ski the run that took his father’s life and, with the aid of some of the world’s greatest ski mountaineers, tries to become a member of skiing’s big-mountain tribe.

There to chronicle Kye’s story is William A. Kerig, a filmmaker with a dream of his own—to create a film about the soul of big-mountain skiing and the band of mountaineers who ski the steepest, wildest, most dangerous terrain in the world.

In The Edge of Never, Kerig gives us not only a ripping adventure tale about a young man coming of age but a frank and subtle portrait of those who “live big” in the face of death, risking everything to experience the fullness of life in the mountains.

A moving human story, Kerig stays true to the roots and culture of skiing. — Powder magazine