Backcountry, Heli & Cat

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Squaw launches lift accessed backcountry tours

Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows has partnered with Alpenglow Expeditions to provide lift-accessed guided backcountry skiing and snowboarding in terrain immediately surrounding the ski resort....

Five things I would change in the ski industry

From means testing for athlete funding to avalanche beacon gates at every resort to compulsory critical incident support protocols. Five things I wish for...

Aurora launch skiing in Antarctica

Aurora Expeditions, the leaders in polar adventures, is expanding its portfolio of Antarctic activities for the 2017/18 season with the introduction of Ski Touring...

Eat pray ski – one woman’s backcountry ski adventure in India

Keen to try skiing in India, I thought Manali could be a little less overrun by overseas visitors than Gulmarg so after reaching out...

New human powered ski area opens in Colorado this February

There's a new ski area opening in the USA on February 15 - a 1500 acre human-powered ski area without a single chairlift in...

Best Aussie backcountry tours for first timers this ski season

While Australia waits for more news about the ski season ahead, including opening dates and how resorts will operate in a COVID winter, thoughts...

A week of avalanches, tree wells and death on the slopes

With big snow comes big risk. North American ski resorts have felt both joy and pain this last week with snow & death on...

Crazy footage of guests saved by helicopter from Kicking Horse gondola

Some 'lucky' guests stuck on the Golden Eagle Express gondola during an electrical failure had to be evacuated by helicopter and they caught it...

Ski or board backcountry alone? Don’t be an idiot

A season of tree well deaths and avalanches burying solo skiers & riders  reinforces why you should never ski off piste alone. I am amazed how...

Mike Douglas reveals four tips for skiing powder

Feel exhausted by the photos of all the powder skiing breaking the internet this week? Intimidated by the level of pow?  Don't stress, Mike...

Aussieskier launches small group ski tours in Chamonix

New to the ski touring market is an exceptional small group product introduced by ‘aussieskier adventures’. The first tours will run in February 2017...

When powder skiing turns deadly

There's nothing pretty about this video. You think there is, to start. It's filled with beautiful powder skiing and boarding, the kind you find...

Chamonix, French for out of your comfort zone

You think you can ski until you hit Chamonix. That one time Winter Olympian Anna Segal got happily schooled in the French alps. Three years ago,...

VIDEO: Be inspired by the Aussie quadriplegic who heli skis in...

Australian sit skier Sarah-Jane 'SJ' Staszak knows adversity. The adventure loving legend became a quadriplegic after a simple surgery went wrong five years ago....

Splitboarding powder video that will make you want to hike

You know those videos that make you itch to get into the snow? This is one of them. I love the dialogue in this five...

Missing Australian skiers in Nozawa found alive and well

The four Australian skiers missing at Nozawa Onsen overnight have reportedly been found according to a Facebook post from Nozawa Onsen moments ago. The mother...
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