# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sylvain-saudan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:58:26.259Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sylvain-saudan"
name: "Sylvain Saudan"
slug: "sylvain-saudan"
description: "Sylvain Saudan was a Swiss extreme skier, dubbed \"skier of the impossible.\" He was noted for skiing down large and steep mountains, including those in the Himalayas, North America, Asia, Africa, and Europe. In 1982, he entered the Guinness Book of World Records for descending the highest and steepest slope ever skied."
tagline: "Swiss alpine skier (1936–2024)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sylvain_Saudan_2021.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
birthDate: "1936-09-23"
deathDate: "2024-07-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.74
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.680562666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvain_Saudan"
    title: "Sylvain Saudan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "سيلڤاين ساودان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvain_Saudan"
    title: "Sylvain Saudan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvain_Saudan"
    title: "Sylvain Saudan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvain_Saudan"
    title: "Sylvain Saudan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvain_Saudan"
    title: "Sylvain Saudan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2075712"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump