FREDRIK is a professional skier and mountaineer from Sweden that spends most of his time in Chamonix, France. He grew up in a town called Umeå in the northern part of Sweden with long winters and lots of snow. But it wasn´t until the age of 18 that he found out that skiing was his big passion. Fredrik worked as a ski instructor in Oppdal, Norway for two seasons before he left Scandinavia and spent winters in Queenstown, New Zealand and Fernie Canada. In the year of 2000 Fredrik came to Chamonix where he found the perfect playground for all his interests: skiing, climbing and mountain biking.

During the winters he travels to ski resorts and remote mountain ranges worldwide with photographers Mikael Pilstrand and Fredrik Schenholm doing photo shoots for ski magazines and his sponsors. That has taken him to places like the Sarek National Park in Sweden, Svalbard Islands in the Arctic Sea, the Kackar Mountains in Turkey and Iceland.

In the summer of 2003 Fredrik traveled to the Himalayas for the first time. He went to the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan where he made a ski descent of the 7495 meter high mountain Peak Somoni (Peak Communism). That opened his eyes and made him crave for more big mountains. In 2004 he became the first Swede to ski descend and 8000-meter peak when he skied from the central summit of Shisha Pangma (8012m) in Tibet. In 2005 Fredrik, together with his Norwegian friend Jörgen Aamot, made an attempt to ski the spectacular Laila Peak (6069m) in Pakistan. They didn't quite make it all the way and skied from 5940m. That same year he also skied Gasherbrum 2 (8035m), Fredrik's second 8000-meter peak. In 2007 Fredrik returned to the Himalayas to ski his third 8000er Dhaulagiri (8167m). Bad conditions forced him to turn around at 8000 meters from where he made a 3000 vertical meters ski descent.

In the future Fredrik plans ski descents on the three highest mountains in the world Kangchenjunga, K2 and Mount Everest.