Announcing the First Annual Chamonix Mountain Festival This is an open invitation to climbers, skiers and all mountain enthusiasts to the Chamonix Mountain Festival. This gathering, organised by mountaineers for mountaineers, will take place during the first week of June in the iconic valley of Chamonix Mont-Blanc. Everybody is welcome in this ...
What started off as a funny interview between Liz Daley and pro skier Rachael Burks in Verbier during the final of the Freeride World Tour, ended up as an insightful piece on the legacy Shane McConkey left behind. His wife Sherry kindly agreed to speak to us about the Pain McSchlonkey event which will take place on March 29 – 30 at Squaw ...
American Whitewater Action Alert – Yosemite National Park is currently seeking the public’s input on how the Wild and Scenic Merced and Tuolumne Rivers will be managed in the future, including the question of whether to open paddling within Yosemite National Park. The Park’s current policy is to prohibit boating on all rivers ...
A new line on the northwest face of Aiguille de la Bérangère was opened recently by a crew of Chamonix locs – Roch Malnuit, Lolo Dupré, Hervé Sanglard and Francis Kelsey. Roch and Laurent stopped by to tell us about their big day out. To read the full story and see out loads of great photos check out Roch’s website.
February 12 After a few cold beers to celebrate an insane day of heli skiing in Italy, Miles Smart‘s very nice clients Doug Layman and Greg Baker ask me, “Would you like to join us again tomorrow to heli ski all the way to Zermatt.” My mouth drops open and my mind races. “I would love to, the only problem is that I have ...
It’s easy to capture the public eye, but what goes on behind the scenes is as deserving of an award as the stars. It probably hasn’t escaped your notice that it’s the time of the year when ‘special’ people get awards for being good-looking and a little talented. Yep, the Oscars are upon us and the news pages are filled with irrelevant ...
Check out this sick edit by Australian paddler and filmmaker Adrian Kiernan, plus Whitebox magazine covers the second Whitewater Grand Prix that took place last December on various rivers in Chile. See the Whitewater Grand Prix (WWGP), kayaking’s premier event, through the eyes of athletes on tour at this year’s extreme race series ...
How much new kit do we need and how much do they want us to need? Well here’s our two-cents worth. Recently I ordered some new headlamps for my van (don’t ask). The company that sent them slipped in a little packet of jelly sweets, I guess as a kind of gesture of good will. I’ll cut them some slack here. It was a nice thing ...
First it was a wingsuit-wearing brunette bombshell swimming with a whale shark, then that same supermodel decided to ditch the wingsuit in exchange for a fearless pro surfer and a bunch of tiger sharks. This time, the supermodel is gone, but she’s been replaced by a beautiful blonde who goes by the name of Ocean, and has a thing for a ...
It was once a paradise for travelers and mountain sports lovers, but for the past 15 years or more Pakistan has been closer to a war zone than anything else. While fewer and fewer people are traveling to Pakistan for leisure, some hardy adventurers are still determined to enjoy the exciting peaks and rivers of this part of the Himalayas ...
