Edgar Cheylus spent his childhood chasing his dad around the mountains and through the surf of France, which proved to be a stellar apprenticeship for a burgeoning freeskier given that both Edgar and his younger sister became French and European Junior Freeride Champions. Cheylus competed on the Freeride Junior World Tour from the age of 14, supported by a radical freeride sports studies offering his high school set up, training with the “king of the backflip,” Seb Michaud, alongside a team dubbed “les gaziers" for the way they would explode dynamically down a slope. He graduated on top of the world, winning the European Junior title, and then had a stark initiation when he and his best friend were caught in an avalanche in Chamonix. Only Edgar survived. In 2020, with the world retracting due to Covid, Cheylus rehabbed a reconstructed ACL, rethought his University plans, and made the deeply personal and poetic short film Sentience, in tribute to the friend who had shared and inspired his life philosophy. Though just 20, he emerged into the 2022-2023 season a little more seasoned by life in the mountains, debuting on the Freeride World Qualifier, keener than ever to make the most of every moment. Having spent every summer at France’s Mecca for surfing, Hossegar, Cheylus is in his element when gliding - on a surfboard, kiteboard or on skis – something he counterbalances by working with his hands, shaping surfboards and slowly building a design portfolio, with the idea of one day studying industrial product design, to make and perfect the tools that bring him the most joy.

Achievements

• 3 x French Junior World Champion, Freeskiing
• European Junior World Champion, Freesking (2019)
• Filmmaker of “Sentience”