"It was a surreal experience – simply amazing! I couldn't ski with the speed I normally do in races, even though the course was very steep in the first part, up to 75 percent incline," he explains. "At each gate I was blinded for a split second because I had to ski through a cloud of yellow and blue."
And why this project? "We wanted to bring a new, cool element into skiing," he smiles, "and create unforgettable images. And I think we succeeded!"
See the best pictures of Hirscher's colour explosion here: