Cross Country Skier Winter 2017 Alpinist 55 LAST COL: AVALANCHE ART

LAST COL: AVALANCHE ART

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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

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

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

Cross Country Skier Winter 2017 Alpinist 55 LAST COL: AVALANCHE ARTFEATURES 2017 LIGHT TOURING GEAR What sort of ski do you need when you're setting your own track on ungroomed, untracked terrain? What if your thing is climbing a mountain to Telemark down through bottomless powder? Our editors called in a few dozen pairs of skis, boots and bindings and, thanks to an ample, early season snowpack in Northern Vermont, put them through the paces. WAX WARS: ON THE WORLD CUP CIRCUIT, AMERICA IS DAVID Last winter, Hansi