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[Photos] Jim Morrison, Christina Lusti, and Chantel Astorga Complete First-Ever Ski Descent of West Face of Great Trango Towers, Pakistan

  A team of three skiers, consisting of Jim Morrison, Christina Lustenberger, and Chantel Astorga successfully completed the first-ever ski descent of Great Trango Towers in Pakistan on May 9, 2024. The vertical faces of Trango Towers are among the world’s tallest cliffs, and the climb is considered one of the world’s hardest. The team around Jim Morrison attempted the […]
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Squaw Valley, CA Resident Aiming to Make First Ever Ski Descent of Lhotse, World’s 5th Highest Mountain

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A group of four Americans have announced plans to try to ski the world’s 5th highest mountain, Lhotse which summits at 27,940-feet (8,516m) and is close to Mt Everest in the Himalayas. Parts of Lhotse, one of the world’s 14 peaks above 8,000m (26,247-feet), have been skied already, but no one has made the full top to bottom descent reports snow-forecast. […]
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