Jones Pro Team rider Antti Autti elevates his captivating Arctic Lines video series to new heights with Aesthetics, a feature film that follows Autti, Jeremy Jones, and Elena Hight as they search for dream lines in Norway’s Lyngen Alps.
After three intense years on the Freeride World Tour, Palisades Tahoe skier Ross Tester steps away from the competitive spotlight to rediscover his love for skiing in its purest form.
Ski mountaineering is where skiers make their way up to the summit of a mountain, then downhill-ski back to the base. It is a sector of skiing that has been growing in popularity since the pandemic. Until now, skiers have had to climb up the mountain mostly by human power unless skiers have access to a snowmobile, CAT, or helicopter. However, E-Skimo has developed a ski that can change all of that.
On Wednesday, December 11, a 27-year-old local skier was caught in an avalanche at the Stubai Glacier, Austria. The 27-year-old was skiing with a 33-year-old Canadian near the “Wildspitz” mountain station. The pair left the groomed runs and skied eastward into steeper off-piste terrain, where they triggered a loose snow avalanche.
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A ski tourer was killed Sunday, March 15, after an avalanche swept through an off-piste sector at La Grave in the French Hautes-Alpes region, marking the second deadly avalanche of the season in the famed French freeride destination. The avalanche occurred around midday on Sunday in the Trois Évêchés sector, an area known for steep terrain popular with experienced backcountry […] >> читать далее
Austria’s avalanche death toll has surged well beyond the 10-year average of 16 after hitting 26 fatalities as of February 25. The figures were released today by the Austrian Board of Trustees for Alpine Safety (ÖKAS), which maintains the country’s alpine accident database in cooperation with Austria’s Alpine Police. The organization issued a statement addressing the recent cluster of fatal […] >> читать далее
A skier was killed on Thursday after an avalanche buried them in British Columbia‘s Selkirk Mountains east of Revelstoke. Selkirk Tangiers Helicopter Skiing, the outfitter guiding the group, confirmed the incident in a statement. Related: 8 Skiers Found Dead After Castle Peak Avalanche in California With One Still Missing For What is Now The Deadliest Avalanche Accident in State History “Yesterday, […] >> читать далее
Another tragic reminder of how serious big-mountain skiing can be unfolded Tuesday, February 17, in La Grave, France, where two skiers in their 30s were killed in an avalanche on the resort’s legendary high-alpine terrain. The avalanche occurred in an off-piste sector of the domain, an area known worldwide for its steep, unmarked lines accessed by a single lift system. […] >> читать далее
A massive avalanche struck the Ves Canal in Val Veny, above Courmayeur, on Sunday, February 15, at around 11 a.m., overwhelming a group of off-piste skiers on one of the most popular freeride routes at the foot of Mont Blanc. The final toll is two dead and one critically injured. One victim, a 31-year-old from Chamonix, France, was found lifeless […] >> читать далее
Two 37-year-old Austrian snowboarders were killed by an avalanche on Sunday, February 15, in the freeride area of the Stubai Glacier in Tyrol, Austria. The tragedy unfolded near Neustift in the Stubai Valley, where a large-scale search operation was launched Sunday evening after the two men failed to return from a planned snowboard tour. Shortly before 6 p.m., a woman […] >> читать далее
A massive avalanche struck the Ves Canal in Val Veny, above Courmayeur, on Sunday, February 15, at around 11 a.m., overwhelming a group of off-piste skiers on one of the most popular freeride routes at the foot of Mont Blanc. The final toll is two dead and one critically injured. One victim, a 31-year-old from Chamonix, France, was found lifeless […] >> читать далее
Several major French ski resorts have announced closures and severe operational disruptions as avalanche danger reaches maximum levels across large parts of the French Alps. Storm Nils has brought intense snowfall, storm-force winds, and rapidly deteriorating snowpack stability, prompting authorities to issue avalanche danger ratings of 5/5 (Very High) in the Mont Blanc, Aravis, Chablais, Haute-Tarentaise, and Oisans massifs. Elsewhere […] >> читать далее
Five people have died in avalanche-related accidents over the weekend in Northern Italy, in what authorities are calling one of the deadliest weekends of the winter so far for the municipality Trentino–South Tyrol. The fatalities occurred between Saturday and Sunday, February 7 and 8, across several high-risk areas, amid persistently unstable snow conditions and elevated avalanche danger warnings. The most […] >> читать далее
Two Finnish tourists have died after being buried in an avalanche on Thursday afternoon, February 5, in Sulden (Solda) in South Tyrol in northern Italy. The incident occurred around 1:30 p.m. on a freeride slope below the Schöntaufspitze (Punta Beltovo), which can be reached by the Rosim gondola. The avalanche extended toward Rosimtal (Val di Rosim), a high alpine valley […] >> читать далее
Two Finnish tourists have died after being buried in an avalanche on Thursday afternoon, February 5, in Sulden (Solda) in South Tyrol in northern Italy. The incident occurred around 1:30 p.m. on a freeride slope below the Schöntaufspitze (Punta Beltovo), which can be reached by the Rosim gondola. The avalanche extended toward Rosimtal (Val di Rosim), a high alpine valley […] >> читать далее
View this post on Instagram Even with experienced guides, snow safety checks, and thoughtful planning, things can still go wrong during freeride competitions; mountains do as they please. During a Freeride World Qualifier four-star event at Serre Chevalier, France, German snowboarder Leonardo Schweizer triggered a large avalanche mid-run—the kind of moment that makes your stomach drop whether you’re watching from […] >> читать далее
[Updated December 28, 7:30 p.m. CET] A 31-year-old freerider from Rome died in hospital after being rescued with serious injuries late Saturday afternoon, December 27. The victim, identified as Eduardo Conti, was swept into a deep crevasse by an avalanche on Marmolada, one of the Italian Dolomites’ most complex and glaciated massifs. According to a statement released by the Trentino […] >> читать далее
A 31-year-old freerider from Rome was rescued late Saturday afternoon, December 27, after being swept into a deep crevasse by an avalanche on Marmolada, one of the Italian Dolomites’ most complex and glaciated massifs. According to a statement released by the Trentino Alpine and Speleological Rescue (CNSAS), the man was skiing at an altitude of approximately 2,700 meters (8,860 feet) […] >> читать далее
A fatal avalanche occurred at Jikepulin Ski Resort in the Altai Mountains of Northwest China, near the Mongolian and Kazakhstani borders. China Daily reported that the incident happened outside of a designated ski trail early in the afternoon and resulted in one person buried and killed. Professional rescue teams were quickly dispatched and recovered the victim less than three hours […] >> читать далее