
Alpine News Features
Alpine News Features
By Sam Masters
Lots of people talk about freedom. Others try to protect it with legislation, diplomacy or war. Backcountry skiers and snowboarders get to live it: experiencing total immersion in freedom’s joy and consequences.
Lots of people talk about freedom. Others try to protect it with legislation, diplomacy or war. Backcountry skiers and snowboarders get to live it: experiencing total immersion in freedom’s joy and consequences.
- November 01, 2018
By Nathan Fa’avae.
Snow sports, my wife Jodie and I probably have a similar story to many others our age.
Snow sports, my wife Jodie and I probably have a similar story to many others our age.
- October 17, 2018
Poised at the top of an icy 45 degree, 650 metre slope, I feel both commitment and resolve.
- October 01, 2018
By Ollie Hunt.
On Saturday August 18th (2018) we didn’t have the option of heading to Temple Basin for the weekend, due to a shindig on the Saturday night. My brother Jeremy, Michael Stevens, and I were tossing up between the backside of the Craigieburn Range at Mt Olympus or the front side at Broken River.
On Saturday August 18th (2018) we didn’t have the option of heading to Temple Basin for the weekend, due to a shindig on the Saturday night. My brother Jeremy, Michael Stevens, and I were tossing up between the backside of the Craigieburn Range at Mt Olympus or the front side at Broken River.
- September 05, 2018
Big mountain skiing or freeriding developed from the sport of extreme skiing in the late eighties and early nineties.
- September 01, 2018
By Ben Hume
I am notably disorganized and have found myself in various situations I had not planned on being in this winter. However, if I am honest, while flying from the seat of my pants the skiing has only gotten better!
I am notably disorganized and have found myself in various situations I had not planned on being in this winter. However, if I am honest, while flying from the seat of my pants the skiing has only gotten better!
- August 15, 2018
By Stu Waddel.
The Craigieburn Haute Route is in its fourth season in 2018 and we recently completed a great trip from Craigieburn to Mt Olympus. I share our joys and hard work as a script of changing fortunes.
- August 09, 2018
By Anna Keeling.
Riding a lift recently, I saw the loopiest telemark skier making his ungainly way down mountain. Pulling up, he yelled “write about why skiing is good for kids!”
- August 01, 2018
By Anna Keeling.
A couple of years ago I was teaching a snow safety class at Mt Cheeseman. Constant snow flurries, low visibility and wind kept us inbounds on day one.
A couple of years ago I was teaching a snow safety class at Mt Cheeseman. Constant snow flurries, low visibility and wind kept us inbounds on day one.
- July 10, 2018
By Anna Keeling.
Going to ski tour on New Zealand’s glaciers is always a time of anticipation and excitement but heading to the glaciers of the West Coast is definitely it’s own thing.
- July 10, 2018
By Sam Masters.
The Chill Pass is the great unifying force of our age. It far surpasses the hapless attempts at world peace made at the Congress of Vienna (1815), the League of Nations (1920) and the United Nations (1945).
The Chill Pass is the great unifying force of our age. It far surpasses the hapless attempts at world peace made at the Congress of Vienna (1815), the League of Nations (1920) and the United Nations (1945).
- May 01, 2018
A Chill interview with the Kea Conservation Trust.
- January 01, 2018