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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 worldโ€™s tallest cliffs, and the climb is considered one of the worldโ€™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 worldโ€™s 5th highest mountain, Lhotse which summits at 27,940-feet (8,516m) and is close to Mt Everest in the Himalayas.ย Parts of Lhotse, one of the worldโ€™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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