"There is no magic pill" was the line the whole Ladder launch was built on, and nobody embodied it better than Lindsey Vonn. By the time we shot her, she'd already been through more crashes, surgeries, and comebacks than most athletes see in a lifetime, and it turns out she still wasn't done.

She trained on camera like it was race day and didn't want to fake a single rep. Somewhere between setups, we realized we were about the same age and grew up skiing the same little hill in Minnesota: Buck Hill. While I was there in eighth grade chasing a cute girl. Lindsey was chasing gold