Facing Uncertainty: The Role of Chance in Mountain Adventures
Mountain Guide and Parks Canada Visitor Safety Specialist Steve Holeczi discusses the role of chance in mountain adventures and how to assess the unknown.
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Behind the Photo: Rockies Edition
Behind the scenes of three action photos from ML's Rocky Mountains edition.
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The Wild West
Journey into Larry Land, into the realm of monstrous mountains and intricate glaciers, as Andrew Findlay and Steve Ogle take aim at Canada’s only Haute-Route-esque hut-to-hut ski traverse.
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An Uphill Battle
The up-track at Kimberley Alpine Resort was the first sanctioned and designated skin track at a Canadian ski resort, although the route had been well used for years prior under the cover of darkness.
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The Talented Ms. Ripley
Canmore environmentalist Shannon Ripley is one of a ‘rind.’ A soil scientist with a soft spot for community composting, she’s done heaps to help enrich the Bow Valley since moving to the mountains in 2015.
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ML Rocky Mountains Winter ’22-’23 Issue Out Now
The third issue of Mountain Life Rocky Mountains has arrived.
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ML Rocky Mountains Wins Photography Award
ML Rocky Mountains is now officially "award-winning." Last week at the Alberta Magazines Conference, a shot by Steve Ogle published in the inaugural winter issue won Best Landscape Photograph.
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ML Rockies: Summer Photo Highlights
Is there anything more glorious than summertime in the Rockies?
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New Issue Drop: ML Rocky Mountains Summer ’22
The summer 2022 issue of Mountain Life Rocky Mountains has arrived.
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The Last Wish of a Cultural Giant
Lloyd "Buddy" Wesley leaned over the table with a sad grace as he sorted through his papers in preparation for his weekly Stoney language and culture class at Canmore’s artsPlace. I stood in the doorway on that warm evening in early June 2021, and watched him for a moment, taking him in. I could tell something was bothering him; he was carrying the weight of the world on his back.
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Rob Heule: East of the Great Divide
On a clear spring morning, Rob Heule takes in the sunrise atop the Great Divide; British Columbia to one side, Alberta to the other. He studies a dozen different ski objectives in the golden light. The obvious descents would take him west to “Beautiful British Columbia” but, Rob has a different plan.
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Rockies Reframed: Artists Explore Climate, Culture And Our Shifting Landscape
In Banff National Park, a group of artists held up a print of one of Catharine Robb Whyte’s paintings and spent time discerning where exactly she would have stood to paint it. The differences were startling, particularly the shrinking glaciers.
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Risking It All: Are the Mountains Worth Dying For?
Will Gadd, one of the Rockies' best-known adventurers, riffs on life and death in the mountains.
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Ode to the Ski Traverse
words :: Andrew Findlay // photos :: Steve Ogle. Skins sliding across hard snow make a quiet rustling sound, like dry leaves swept across pavement. The weight of a heavy…
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Mountain Life to Launch Rocky Mountains Edition This Fall
For the past 18+ years, Mountain Life’s publications and digital presence have proven it’s possible to build something a community can really connect to. With the launch of ML in…
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The Climber & the Photographer: A Friendship Forged in The Rockies
Written by Sean Leslie, Outdoor Research. There are some people who see the world in a different, more beautiful way. Forest Woodward is one of them, and his photographs allow…
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