This website will be down for a few days for some updates…in the interim, here are some fun trips and web places to ponder: The team of Jaime Laidlaw, Kip Garre, Devon O’neil, and Kristoffer Erickson are in the Saipal region of Nepal to attempt to climb and ski previously unexplored peaks. They won’t be [...]
Archive for September, 2009
This vimeo video hit me hard on Friday, and came very close to home. It was strangely therapeutic to watch, in being so eerily familiar, giving the sense of confronting demons. For anyone who has gone through a similar experience, this headcam footage captures it all. I think a lot can be gained from listening to their pre-game conversation, and also [...]
In honor of the flying frenchman’s bday today, here is a youtube short clip of our adventure from his ski base off Ajax Peak in Telluride’s box canyon this past spring 2009. Matthias named the cliff in honor of the late, very great Shane McConkey. Usually when I am with Matthias, I end up jumping out of or [...]
Canadian adventurers Marcus Waring and his partner Ryan, whom we met on Denali in June, not only skied the Rescue Gully successfully from 17 camp, but then moved on to a first descent on Mt Foraker. Their feat is extremely impressive in a world that is stocked with route information and they went where there [...]
