His ski films have taken him all over the world, but it was here in the valley he first found his passion.
Greg Stump, the iconic filmmaker grew up in Gorham, Maine, in the late 1960s and early '70s, and found himself enrolled in a freestyle Junior Masters program started by the late entrepreneur Peter Pinkham.
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