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Posted On: May 13th 2026, 06:13 pm
I didn’t know if couloir skiing was for me.
Less than a year ago on a similar couloir 3,000 km (1,870 miles) away. I lost one of my favorite humans. She was safe and careful and I don’t know if I will ever really know what happened. But she fell and didn’t make it out the other side alive.
And so skiing was scary and couloirs were scary and the combination of the two felt like a risk that was not worth taking.
And then. I got invited to come and ski arguably the most beautiful line in North America - and in my attempt to navigate life in a way that would make Hannah proud, I said yes. An easy yes.
A week into the trip it was time to head up. I stopped shy of topping out. But had a beautiful day in the mountains… until the final pitch. Where the powder turned to ice as I crossed the shadow line. The sparkly ground beneath me caught an edge of my ski.
One ski ejected immediately and I was lucky enough to flip over and get my remaining ski under my body and dug an edge in quickly. It was oddly the most terrifying and all freeing fall. That the big scary thing did in fact happen. And I was able to come out (mostly) unscathed.
This line was for Hannah 🤍
Thank you for the video @jakeholland.co.uk
Less than a year ago on a similar couloir 3,000 km (1,870 miles) away. I lost one of my favorite humans. She was safe and careful and I don’t know if I will ever really know what happened. But she fell and didn’t make it out the other side alive.
And so skiing was scary and couloirs were scary and the combination of the two felt like a risk that was not worth taking.
And then. I got invited to come and ski arguably the most beautiful line in North America - and in my attempt to navigate life in a way that would make Hannah proud, I said yes. An easy yes.
A week into the trip it was time to head up. I stopped shy of topping out. But had a beautiful day in the mountains… until the final pitch. Where the powder turned to ice as I crossed the shadow line. The sparkly ground beneath me caught an edge of my ski.
One ski ejected immediately and I was lucky enough to flip over and get my remaining ski under my body and dug an edge in quickly. It was oddly the most terrifying and all freeing fall. That the big scary thing did in fact happen. And I was able to come out (mostly) unscathed.
This line was for Hannah 🤍
Thank you for the video @jakeholland.co.uk
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