The Winter Tour / Arc’teryx

On November 13th, Arc’teryx transforms BASE Milano into a living landscape, a temporary topography of snow, sound, and light. The Winter Tour is not an event, but a passage: between altitude and attitude, a collision between the mountain’s silence and the city’s vibration.

As the doors open at 8:30 PM, sound becomes terrain. Arc’hive, a sound installation by Edo Rossano, expands through the concrete space like an invisible weather system. Built from field recordings, low frequency resonance, and sculpted echo, it dissolves the boundary between nature and architecture. Immersive and meditative, it draws you into the rhythm of the mountain itself.

From there, the night unfolds through two multimedia exhibitions, Elsewhere and Résonance, each refracting the same language of motion through a different lens.

Elsewhere reimagines the backcountry not as a site of performance, but as a psychological frontier. Created with freeriders Loïc Isliker, Max Kroneck, Noémie Equy, and Edgar Cheylus, it explores the quiet intervals between action, the moments of suspension, breath, and uncertainty before descent. Through film fragments, photography, and environmental sound, Elsewhere portrays the mountain as a sentient body: unpredictable, contemplative, alive.

Résonance, curated by photographers Perly and Matteo, extends this dialogue between motion and memory. It stages a visual conversation between generations of riders and image makers, where adrenaline meets introspection. Harsh, kinetic frames collapse into meditative compositions: snow dissolving into abstraction, ridgelines bending into pure geometry. The exhibition becomes an echo chamber of winter, every image vibrating with distance, gravity, and time.

At 9:30 PM, the cinematic sequence begins: Elsewhere, Between Days, Fifty-Fifty, and DVD Vol.12 Ruby Frequency. Each film explores a different grammar of elevation, from the storm driven poetry of the Japanese Alps to the raw physicality of endurance and self definition. Featuring Silvia Moser, Victor Daviet, and a collective of Arc’teryx athletes, the screenings unravel the myth of control, suggesting that to master nature, one must first surrender to it.

From 11:00 PM, the tone shifts. Curated by Vena, the afterparty merges bass and breath: Sister Effect, Hans Harsen, Flux by Uchica b2b Gnaucelie, and Giesse reframe gravity through rhythm, transforming the industrial void of BASE into an alpine frequency. What begins as altitude ends as sound, a full circle resonance.

All ticket proceeds will be donated to Protect Our Winters Italy, grounding the night’s visual and emotional charge in something tangible. This isn’t philanthropy as performance, but a reminder that the mountain is not a backdrop, it is a living system we depend on. For Arc’teryx, elevation is not about escape; it is about connection, stewardship, and the quiet responsibility that comes with admiration.