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Crevacol, Italy. Photo: © Mauro Regis/ultimatefreeride.altervista.org. William Carey is a sculptor and an experienced skier who used to ski with the army. In 2010, he was buried by a small but potentially lethal avalanche in the Alps. This is his...

By Fred Bernard, with Laurent Bibollet The Mont Blanc range is not a very big mountain range, but it is steep. It has become a kind of laboratory for skiers, mountaineers and climbers from around the world. Laurent and I consider ourselves somewhere...

Hey Everyone, We've had a few of our guides working and climbing out of the Abbott Pass Hut area the past few days. Yesterday 2 Guides did a single day traverse from Lake O'Hara up via the Huber Ledges to Victoria, descending via the hut while the another...

We’ve rolled the clocks forward, the weather is warming, the snow pack is thick (and changing) and mountain lovers are starting to eye up bigger, more complex terrain. Spring skiing is upon us, and it’s a perfect time (it’s always a perfect time) to...

How to prepare for the AMGA Ski Guide’s Program First, go read the prerequisites on the program website. I want to group the items on that list into three simple categories. This article only addresses the first category. 1) Skiing standard (raw ability...