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“Winter Elements” Is a Love Letter to the Women Who Make Winter Possible

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  An all-women creative team is building a new feature-length ski film that spotlights the people who keep winter culture running—patrollers, avalanche forecasters, snowcat drivers, photographers, brand leaders, and elite athletes. The project, Winter Elements, is now crowdfunding with a Kickstarter campaign running through November 23, 2025, with a planned premiere in fall 2026. Related: The 9 Greatest Female Freeskiers […]
Martin Kuprianowicz |
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Carving New Lines: How Pakistan’s Women are Claiming the Snow

The fight for women’s equality—at home, in politics, and across culture—is a story that has unfolded over centuries and around the world. On February 12, 1983, hundreds of women marched through Pakistan’s cultural capital, Lahore, to protest the discriminatory Law of Evidence instituted under General Zia-ul-Haq. The law, equating the testimony of two women to that of one man, was […]
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Female Skiers Earned More than their Male Counterparts Last Year for the Second Year in a Row

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The top female alpine ski racers in the world out-earned their male counterparts for the second season in a row thanks to equal minimum prize money offered at all Audi FIS Alpine World Cup events, reports FIS-Ski. Though individual organizers are permitted to offer more than the minimum should they have the funding to do so, both the female and […]
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Steven Agar |
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Two Female Mountaineers Trapped on 14,259’ Longs Peak in Colorado in Ice Storm

Two experienced female mountaineers, Connie Yang and Suzanne Turell, from Maine are currently trapped near the summit of 14,259-foot Longs Peak in Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park. They sent cell phone texts between 9:07am and 9:12am Thursday September 12th, 2013 to Connie’s Sister:   Rangers and friends have tried calling the women’s cell phones to no avail. “They are very […]
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