Eyh, it´s me! Shot by Bjarte Olsen, at work for Landevei magazine in the epic mountains of Norway…
Have fun with your Hipstamatic apps, this is the real deal! So stoked on The Impossible Project and what they´re doing!
Min hypotese er at FrP har trukket til seg en annen type politikere enn de etablerte partiene. “Når man setter ut fjøslykta en sommerkveld, kommer det fram mange rare insekter”.
Shooting trails at Oppdal last weekend for TERRENGSYKKEL. Look out for a story with the pictures the upcoming spring!
A true hero.
If there is one thing life has taught me, it is that hard work pays off.
My little brother was always the more physical type of the two. While I would sit in after I had done my homework, he would run out and climb up our neighbours tree. Usually he climbed so high that he got stuck, and our parents had to get him down by the help of a ladder.
He was into just about every sport available. Skateboarding, skiing, running, rollerblading, you name it. Once he became really good at something, he got tired of it, and moved on to “the next sport”, leaving his friends full of envy of how fast he learned new skills.
I will never forget the first day I took my little brother out for his first proper mountainbike ride. Until then he had utilized his bike as everyone else, just for transport. I had been into it for a couple of years, and had met quite a few people to ride with.
I think Henrik was around 13 years old, and we were doing a ride on one of the more rough trails near the city with some pretty skilled riders. If I wanted to, I could describe this in a dramatic way, but to put it short: Henrik blew everyone away. Roots, rock and jumps just didn´t seem to affect him as he tore the mountain apart. We just stood there with our expensive, wellequipped bikes, watching the kiddo rip by on his old beat-up Trek with rimbrakes and a suspensionfork that hardly worked at all.
From thereon the journey has taken him far. The thirteen year old little kid is now 21, and is ( I know it is hard to believe, hence he is my brother, but I´m being objective here) one of the most skilled and best riders in Norway.
Travelling around the country photographing races, I never seize to be amazed how technically gifted he is. In what ever technical section he is presented to, he just has a totally different flow than most others, and it all seems so effortless.
Needless to say, he is a far better rider than I. With him riding his crosscountry hardtail, I need a five inch full suspension bike to even have a slightest chance of following him when the terrain gets rough and steep.
Although he still knows how to have fun on his bike, there is one thing that has developed drastically from his childhood. He is damn serious about his mountainbike career, and he wants to prove how good he can be.
I´m just excited to see where this takes him. I´ll never stop believing in him, that´s for sure.
I´m so proud of you Henrik, you are a true hero.
