Cross Country Skier Winter 2017 Alpinist 55 From the world's highest unskied

From the world's highest unskied couloir to the year's boldest solo first descent

Full Value Hoping to make Nepali alpinists more visible— and to boost a struggling local economy— Mingma Gyalje Sherpa decides to solo a peak above his village in the Rolwaling Himal

In the Alps of southeastern Switzerland

France to the shoulder of La Meije has offered access to some of the world's greatest ski-mountaineering terrain for nearly 40 years

Ages of Powder

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