The life of a climber involves a tremendous amount of sacrifice and hardship, but for The North Face team climbers Conrad Anker and Kris Erickson, there’s no living without it.
In 1999, on an expedition in Tibet, Anker and Erickson lost their good friend and exploration companion, Alex Lowe, to an avalanche that narrowly missed Anker himself. To honour Lowe’s memory, the two climbers establish and send The Nutcracker, a new ice climb route in Hyalite Canyon, Montana.
