The freeski star shows his coolest tricks on Copenhagen’s extraordinary new ski mountain!

Copenhagen’s only ski slope is to be found on the rooftop of an emission-free waste-to-energy plant – and freestyle superstar Jesper Tjäder just loves it. The Swedish freeskier enjoys the rails and obstacles of this unique, year-round ski slope – while below him, the pioneering Amager Bakke power plant turns waste into heat and electricity for the Danish capital without any CO2 emissions.

Before the artificial ski slope on the Amager Bakke will be officially opened in the summer of 2019, Jesper Tjäder was allowed to test Copenhagen’s new “mountain” comprehensively. Together with the organisers of the innovative freeski and snowboard event The Audi Nines, he had developed a custom series of freestyle obstacles for this purpose. “This building made it so easy for me to figure out what to do for this project,” said Tjäder. “It’s not really about what tricks I do. It’s skiing down a building that’s the cool thing.”

The state-of-the-art Amager Bakke waste-to-energy plant, opened in 2017, is an important corner stone for Copenhagen’s goal of becoming CO2-neutral by 2025. It supplies district heating for 160,000 households and electricity for 60,000 houses. At the same time, the sloping roof of the 85-metre-high building with its nearly 500-metre-long ski slope, hiking trails and climbing wall serves as a local recreation area.

Amager Bakke implements the philosophy of “hedonistic sustainability” developed by renowned Danish architect Bjarke Ingels and his architect company Bjarke Ingels