It took 178 days for pro skier Hadley Hammer to fall madly in love with Austrian alpinist David Lama. It took one day to lose it all. The mountains brought them together, ripped them apart and carried her back from the gutter of grief.
Till Death Do Us Part: Hadley Hammer’s Journey of Love and Loss in the Mountains
Filed Under: Stories Tagged With: Avalanche Fatality, David Lama, Hadley Hammer, Jackson Hole, Megan Michelson
The Snow Hunters: Pandemic Disruption, History and Powder Skiing in China’s Altai Mountains
It was snowing heavily when a group of North American skiers and riders arrived in the secluded village of Khom, China, tucked in the Altai Mountains, this past January. “To go on a ski trip to one of the most remote places you can get to and have it snow the whole time? It seemed like a perfect scenario,” says British Columbia-based filmmaker Chris Winters. Too bad a global pandemic upended their plans, as Megan Michelson shows in this story from Issue 135.
Filed Under: Stories Tagged With: Altai Mountains, Brennan Lagasse, Brian Hockenstein, Kaitlyn Farrington, Megan Michelson, Skiing in China, Snow Hunters