Mentorship is an essential element of a skier’s growth and progression in the backcountry. Jed Porter offers tips on how to make the most of a mentorship.

It may be a small world after all. Luke Smithwick makes a go of it in the Karakoram and Himalaya pursuing the guiding life and personal objectives.

With more winter backcountry users and a scarcity of good snow and terrain, is it time for a unified voice to mitigate conflicts?

Maybe to no one’s surprise, generally, we backcountry skiers might just be a rational group: a study finds we “value being responsible risk takers whose decisions are grounded in competence–a status that requires training and experience.”.

During the summer months we travel safely through what can dicey avalanche terrain in winter: a mountain bike mail pickup.

Backcountry skiing out of the French Ridge Hut, near Wanaka, New Zealand.