Another issue that postmodernism touches on is the search for strong sensations. When confronting the uncontrollable, the extreme skier experiences being moved and alive, which he does not achieve in the routine, accelerated and controllable world in which he lives. For this skier, the mountain environment signifies something that he must comprehend and manage, however, the control of nature is completely illusory.
The mountain seems, paradoxically, threatened and threatening, with no reference to ‘control’. This could explain the generalized anxiety of postmodernism: skiing something that cannot be entirely controlled, such as balance, the trajectories of others, or the atmospheric phenomena, among other things.
