Larger Lines (not necessarily BIGlines), volume 2: Canmore Couloir and ‘S’ chute<br><br> April 21 and I’m at Yannis’ door again, way too early. Of course he’s wide awake and ready to go. I was fired up, but tired after two other early...

23/09/04, Camp 1 I am back in ABC again after a few days on the mountain. When I left ABC I was hoping to go to camp 1 (C1) the first day, further on to camp 2 (C2) at 6900 m. the second day and down again to ABC the third day. ...

<b>The Mostly Hidden Chute</b><br><br><b>It was 5am April 19 and I couldn’t figure why I was up. I walked up to Yannis Karlos’s window in Banff and much to my surprise found him awake.</b> I guess we were actually going to do this. So we...

I´m getting used to life here in ABC. We are having breakfast a bit after sunrise, lunch at noon and dinner at sunset. In between there is a lot of relaxing, reading books, walking around camp talking to the other climbers. There is a lot...

<b>10/09/04</b> Advanced base camp<br> I am now in advanced base camp (ABC) at 5600 m. I left Nylan on the 6th. It was a four hour drive up on the Tibethian plateau to Shisha Pangma base camp (BC) at 5000m. I stayed in BC for three...

When it’s stacked against winter, summer sucks. Summer pastimes, although incredibly fun, are fleeting compared to the sense of completion that those wintery months bring.<br> This is why, I suppose, my friends and I thought that a...

<b>Never Ski Alone!!!</b><br> As a young skier, experienced <i>“men of the mountains”</i> always intimidated me. The guys that weren’t stuck to the ski hill and that embarked on expeditions and bold adventures of different mountain...

There are only 14 mountains in the world that reaches over 8000 metres. Shisha Pangma in Tibet is one of them. Skier, <b>Fredrik Ericsson</b> is during autumn 2004 going to Tibet to climb and ski descend Shisha Pangma....

Ryan Johannesen and the boys at Big Mountain Productions Canada have been shooting and editing the sickter all winter and summer long. All of this effort, just to bring us all a reminder of why we do what we do. The coming years footage...

Whenever I peruse the topo maps in my Canadian Rockies collection the thing that always catches my eye is the abundance of white patches with blue contour lines. Those areas would be the glaciers. A fine example is map 82 J/11—Kananaskis...