Real ski mountaineering

[astrotech]

Found this article (http://www.exumguides.com/news/shishaski.shtml) while checking on a couple things. A ski mountaineering trip on Shishapangma (http://www.shishapangma.com/facts.html), the 14-th highest peak.

Those are some amazing people who accomplish trips like that.

[skiyak777]

One of those guys, Mark Newcomb, was an instructor for my level II course last month. Very unassuming guy- you'd never think he would be pulling off this kind of thing. He had some great slides to show of avy forecasting gone wildly wrong with Valdez heliski. If I had an extra $6500, I'd totally be up there sking with them this March.

[Sledhaulingmedic]

Nice article. That's in a whole different league.

I don't know if that article was talking about the same route, but I reacll Shishapangma was the site of the avalanche that killed Alex Lowe and another climber 6 or 7 years ago.

A little more intense than a trip up to Tuck. :)

[Zack]

One of those guys, Mark Newcomb, was an instructor for my level II course last month. Very unassuming guy- you'd never think he would be pulling off this kind of thing. He had some great slides to show of avy forecasting gone wildly wrong with Valdez heliski. If I had an extra $6500, I'd totally be up there sking with them this March.


You do your Level II with AAI?

Mark, Rod, Ron, et al are great teachers/resources.

[Skilasnow]

That is way cool ... and so far out of my league ...