FREE THE HEEL, FREE THE MIND.
 

A study on the geometry of freedom searching the curve that never closes.
An Altitude editorial chapter with SCARPA.

Under the surface of the mountain, where the air thins and time expands, movement becomes language.
Telemark isn’t about speed — it’s about listening.
Each turn is a small act of balance, a moment of suspension between gravity and grace.
The heel lifts, and something shifts inside: a release, a breath.

In that instant, the body stops chasing performance and starts drawing silence.
This series follows a single freerider across ice, wind and stone — not to show power, but presence.
The gesture repeats, minimal and ancient, until it disappears into the landscape.

Because to free the heel is also to free the mind — to find clarity in motion, and stillness in descent.

The Line Beneath Ice is part of an ongoing altitude exploration by Nicola Gotti
on the relationship between human movement and mineral silence — between altitude and intimacy.
The series continues Gotti’s research into warmth inside cold, and the geometry of resilience.