Edgar Cheylus spent his childhood chasing his dad around the mountains and through the surf of France, which proved to be a 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, on 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. Having spent every summer at France’s Mecca for surfing, Hossegor, Edgar is in his element when gliding on a surfboard, Kitesurf or on skis, something he counterbalances by working with his hands, shaping surfboards and slowly building a design portfolio, in the idea to make and perfect the tools that bring him the most joy in the wildest places in the world. After discovering poetry and philosophy lately at school, he follows a mantra telling him to do it with joy, humility and respect.
2024
Co-director W/ Baptiste Sjöström of "Danse avec le temps" - Éphémere Movie
Best Young Talent Award with "Danse avec le temps" / High Five Festival, Annecy, France
Best Short Film with "Danse avec le temps" / IF3 Film Festival, Whistler, Canada
Best Editing with "Danse avec le temps" / IF3 Film Festival, Whistler, Canada
Best Cinematography with "Danse avec le temps" / IF3 Film Festival, Whistler, Canada
2023
Co-director W/ Rodrigue Llado of "Wabi-Sabi" - Éphémere Series #1
Rider in Lexicon an Arc'teryx Film
2021
Director of “Sentience”
2020
European Junior Vice-Champion, Freesking
2019
European Junior Champion, Freesking
French Junior Champion, Freeskiing
2018
French Junior Champion, Freeskiing
2017
French Junior Champion, Freeskiing
Supported by,
Arc'teryx
Dynastar skis
Lange Boots
Look Bindings
The Roster
Oakley Skiing