"Ski jumpers in Norway start out when they're three or four years old," says British photographer and filmmaker David Ryle. "There are so many ski jumps – or hills as they're called – it is so natural for them growing up." His meditative film is centered on two young, dedicated jumpers in Oslo, Jonas Schøien Øvsegård and Jorgen Madsen, and the rules and routine they adhere to at the notorious Holmenkollen ski jump.

"It's all about religiously going through a certain process that they trust. They're flying 140 meters in the air and yet are super-nonchalant with a laissez-faire attitude," says Ryle, whose Skihopp (Norwegian for 'ski jump') follows a similarly chilly trip to the east coast of Iceland where he recently captured the eerie sets of Fortitude, the hauntingly wild new series starring Stanley Tucci and Sofie Gråbøl. "There's a fear that perhaps they don't admit to. Or maybe that's just the Norwegian spirit."