It can be hilarious what months of careful planning and weeks of meticulous packing inevitably lead to: four ski mountaineers standing next to a 600lb pile of the bare essentials and the lightest gear that technology has ever offered. And it’s astonishing how that pile of gear, those four skiers, and one very large pilot [...]

We had just moved camp on our seventh of nine days exploring and skiing in the Jetim-Bel range of central Kyrgyzstan.  Having finished digging out a beautiful snow kitchen, I skinned about 20 feet away from where my partners, Molly Loomis and Ann Piersall, were setting up our tent, pulled my pants down around my [...]

With an auspicious start of delays due to an ash spewing Icelandic Volcano, late luggage, a recently overthrown government ripe with political unrest, border closures and some seriously creative driving, during May of 2010 Ollie Nieuwland-Zlotnicki and I (Nathan Rowland) found ourselves at a remote military outpost in Eastern Kyrgyzstan near the border of China. [...]