The Freeride World Tour is back for another action-packed season!
The countdown to the 17th edition of the FWT is underway.
This year will include six stops, -with a new stop in Georgia-, offering riders four competitions Freeride World Tour, Freeride, Tetnuldi, Georgiabefore the cut. Those with enough points will compete in the FWT Finals in Fieberbrunn and in the legendary face of the Bec des Rosses in the Verbier Xtreme.
Georgia and the Caucasus Mountains have successfully hosted FWT Qualifier events during the last two seasons, demanding the attention of the international ski community. Both Tetnuldi and Mestia have emerged as prominent freeride destinations, offering vast big mountain terrain that enjoys copious amounts of snowfall over the winter months.
Tetnuldi is a prominent peak (4,858 m.) in the central part of the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range, located in the Svaneti region of Georgia. The Tetnuldi ski resort was opened during the 2015-2016 winter season and is unique in its location zone for skiing high on the north-west slopes of the homonymous mountain and closeness of glaciers Adish (Lardaad), Nageb, and Tsanner, with a long ski season that stretches from November till the end of May thanks to the abundance of snow and northern slope exposure.
The Hatsvali–Mestia ski resort is located in Mingrelia and Upper Svaneti (Georgia).
The Hatsvali ski resort near Mestia is located in northwestern Georgia in the Greater Caucasus. The city of Mestia is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Calendar Freeride World Tour 2024
1. FREERIDE WORLD TOUR BAQUEIRA BERET, January 27 - February 1, 2024; Location: Bacivér Face, Baqueira Beret, Spain.
2. FREERIDE WORLD TOUR ORDINO ARCALIS - ANDORRA, February 1-7, 2024; Location: Pic de les Planes, Ordino Arcalis, Andorra.
3. FREERIDE WORLD TOUR KICKING HORSE, February 14-20, 2024; Location: Ozone Face, Kicking Horse, Golden, British Columbia, Canada.
4. FREERIDE WORLD TOUR GEORGIA PRO, March 1-7, 2024; Location: Tetnuldi and Mestia, Georgia.
5. FREERIDE WORLD TOUR SAALBACH FIEBERBRUNN, March 12 -18, 2024; Location: Wildseeloder face, Saalbach Fieberbrunn, Kitzbüheler Alpen, Austria.
6. XTREME VERBIER March 23 - 31, 2024; Location: Bec des Rosses, Verbier, Switzerland.
The Freeride World Tour (FWT) is the premier big mountain freeskiing and snowboarding tour in the world, featuring the sport’s top athletes competing in the world’s best mountain resorts. Created in 2008, the FWT became even more global in 2012 following the union of the North American-based Freeskiing World Tour, The North Face Masters of Snowboarding, and the European-based Swatch Freeride World Tour.
FWT Management SA, based in Verbier-Switzerland, has been organizing world-class sports events in mountain resorts and regions since 1996. Founder of “Verbier Xtreme”, an iconic event in freeride skiing & snowboarding, FWT Management SA, has taken in 2008 this stand-alone event to create several series of international freeride competitions totaling over 200 events around the globe for professional, amateur, and junior riders and 6,000 licensed riders.
FWT Management SA is the organizer of the following Series: Freeride World Tour (FWT), Challenger, Qualifier, and Junior events taking place in Europe, North America, South America, Asia, and Oceania.
In December 2022 the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) announced that it had acquired the Freeride World Tour (FWT).
