The Bright SideEven when you've been doing something for decades, there is always something new to learn.
A trip to the middle of nowhere in the Arctic Circle with an award-winning figure skater tests limits and finds new facets in passions thought known.
Three-time Finnish champion Emmi Peltonen ventured into the Finnish wilderness with a camera crew and a dream.
Athleticism and artistry met natural, outdoor ice — a new landscape for a traditional skater.
The result is simply beautiful.
Courtesy of Red Bull.
Nuorgam: a subarctic town at the tippy-top of Finland, sheltered by the shores of a frozen lake beneath the Northern Lights.
With Norway and Russia as neighbors, it gets brutally cold — yet it was the perfect place for this feat of artistry, athleticism, and technology.
Skating began on frozen ponds, lakes, and rivers, yet today it is often confined to indoor rinks.
Natural ice is never perfectly smooth: breeze, waves, air bubbles, or snow create impurities.
Even scraping and squeegeeing can't fully match rink ice — blades still catch.
That fragility makes Emmi's Arctic excursion fearless.
Skating on rough ice in the middle of nowhere, in bitter cold, raises the difficulty — and the beauty.
Drones mimic Northern Lights, cameras follow every move.
Watch the film from Red Bull; skip to 7:34 for the final cut.
Even masters keep discovering.
Emmi got her first skates at 2, yet this film shows something she had never done before.
Falls happened — mistakes repeated — and those imperfections made the work more beautiful.
Try new ways to love what you love.
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Pushing the Limits of Our Passions: Figure Skating in the Arctic Circle
Want to reignite a passion of yours? There's always something new to learn, even with something we've been mastering for decades. We're heading to the Arctic Circle to discover how one master tested her limits, skating into entirely unknown territory and creating one of the most beautiful performances we've seen.