France's Lionel Claudepierre has set a new record on the Chamonix - Zermatt Haute Route ski mountaineering traverse in a record 18 hours and 35 minutes. Mountain Guide Paolo Tombini shares his views ...

Chamonix - Zermatt, from France to Switzerland across one of the most fascinating Haute Route ski mountaineering traverses in the Alps, by Italian Mountain Guide Nicolò Berzi. Multi-day traverses have ...

It has been a longtime dream of mine to design and ski an American haute route similar to the famous haute routes in the Alps. I thought surely the U.S. must have the terrain, and of all places, ...

Ski hut-to-hut from Silverton to Ouray on the Colorado San Juan Interconnect, a catered, IFMGA-guided, European-style multi-day ski tour. Colorado’s San Juan Mountains are known for their deep ...

Since then, the “Purist” Haute Route and the “Reverse” Haute Route have both become popular. Today, around 2,000 skiers tackle one of these routes each season, but at least half a century has passed ...

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Traders and shepherds have traveled through the high passes of the Alps for centuries, but it wasn’t until 1911 that the first skiers completed what is now known as the Haute Route: a six-day, 46-mile ...

Valentine Fabre and her ski-mountaineering partner, Hillary Gerardi, took on the Haute Route, traversing 66 miles of glaciers and passes in less than 27 hours. The challenge? Finding confidence. By ...

You can heli-ski in Greenland and there are even a few ski lifts, but this “exploratory adventure” spurns both, in favour of pursuing unclimbed summits and unskied descents on the barely inhabited ...