July 2007

Among the Aspen area’s offerings of excellent guide services, I’ve always been impressed by the focus and incredibly solid safety record of Scott Messina’s Aspen Alpine Guides (AAG). Though the years, Scott became the word in guiding the 10th Mountain…

ore about the sad skier death last weekend: A person who was on the scene posted a detailed report that makes it obvious that Thomas Metcalf did take a sliding fall and was unable to stop himself.

In his trip report we blogged yesterday, Chris Davenport wrote that over the winter he’d had “a pretty good run of luck in the mountains, a fact not in the least bit lost on me.” Chris was referring to his…

Chris Davenport continues as a leader of the current generation of North American ski mountaineers in their prime. I’d heard he was going to Denali this spring, and as always expected plenty of inspiring success, but this is over the…

We were saddened to hear reports this weekend of skier Thomas Metcalf dying from a fall at Rollins Pass, and another injured in what sounds like a separate accident. I’m not sure I’ve ever heard of a ski mountaineer dying…