"Sick" Rick Armstrong is a professional skier,[1] freeskiing pioneer,[2][3] mountaineer,[4][5] paraglider,[6] businessman and serial entrepreneur based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
He was a member of the ultra-elite group of skiers called the Jackson Hole Airforce who transformed skiing in the 1990s and 2000s.
[7][8] He is known for having skied unskied lines such as his first and unrepeated massive drop into the left side of the notorious Corbet's Couloir[9] at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort.
[14] He also became an athlete talent scout for The North Face[15] building a world-class ski team by discovering soon to be ski stars such as Sage-Cattabriga-Alosa, Ingrid Backstrom, Kitt Deslauries, Griffen Post, and Hillary Nelson.
Armstrong was also a co-founder of the Teton Gravity Research film production company.