Sports such as ski alpinism and climbing help us rise above mundane materialism. They themselves are still material, yet they help us rise to other levels of ourselves and the worlds we inhabit.

It’s never too early to build your fitness base for ski touring. US Ski Mountaineering Team Head Coach Joe Hardyshell gives his top tips to get in ski touring shape before the snow falls.

On Mount Hood’s Newton-Clark Headwall, timing is everything. On a spring attempt of this classic east face line, we timed it badly.

On a volcano ski trip around the Pacific Northwest, all the stoke in the world couldn’t surpass closed roads, rain, avi danger, down trees, and the simple fact that Northwest volcanos are actually very far apart.

The evolution of Wildsnow’s coverage of the wide world of ski touring. New site, new publication schedule and more.

Most ski trips are celebrated by summits and powder runs. But when trying to ski Terminal Cancer Couloir, in Elko, Nevada, we were just lucky to not get arrested.