Backcountry Magazine October 2016 - The International Issue

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Backcountry Magazine October 2016 - The International IssueAs winter quickly approaches, its time to ditch the same old touring haunts and get out thereway out there. For tips and tricks on how to do just that, grab Backcountry Magazines International Issue, packed with beta on the strangest and snowiest locations to shake up this season. In the Travel Guide, head out to the edges of Earth in Kyrgyzstan or check out penguins and powder runs on the Frozen Continent. Plus, find the best tours across the globe,

2016 TRAVEL GUIDE

some of the best—and safest—ski terrain is off-limits

MOUNTAIN SKILLS: MANAGING RISK AND RESPONSIBILITY

Words and Images by Mary McIntyre

she searches for hope in an era of melting ice

Into the Deep

Others believed he was mysteriously invincible—until his abrupt death on the West Pillar of Makalu in 1983

Yasushi Yamanoi made a rapid first ascent of a line on the southwest face of Cho Oyu in 1994—only one of many significant routes that earned him a Piolet d'Or Asia Lifetime Achievement Award

The rise and fall of summer ski camps

France—Isabella Charlet-Straton made the first winter ascent of Mont Blanc with her future husband

Cover: Shawnté Salabert examines what it might really mean to leave a trace or not

waistband and cuffs

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