I was out scrambling with my daughter, and we came across this beauty. A reminder of how lucky we are to see and live among these magnificent creatures!
Before we get to this week’s send, let’s say HI from the canyon rim!!
Stay Stoked! Always AF!
🎿 The greatest ski mountaineer you’ve never heard of
📍 Lhotse, Nepal
Polis ski mountaineer, Bartek Ziemski, has skied from the summit of Lhotse all the way to base camp without supplemental oxygen or personal Sherpa support, the first person to do it.
Lhotse is his eighth 8,000m ski descent, nonchalantly cementing him as one of the most accomplished high-altitude ski mountaineers alive.
Somehow, almost nobody knows his name
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🪂 Mexico to Canada by paraglider
📍 Rocky Mountains, North America
Paraglider Antoine Girard follows the spine of the Rockies over 3,000km, from Mexico to Canada with nothing but wind, thermals, and the unavoidable long stretches on foot.
Exposure, solitude, and a journey of scale! Girard plans to drop all the deets in a full docu soon.
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🎥 Another GoPro winter off the chain
How was your winter? If anything like this GoPro winter reel, it meant huge ski lines, brutal crashes, deep powder, close calls, and speed, speed and more speed.
A reminder that if it weren’t for that tiny box on your head, everything would be different!
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🌍 Around the world on one wheel
📍 From New Zealand to Everywhere
Norm Joe is 57 years old and currently attempting to ride a unicycle around the world. The mission covers nearly 30,000 kilometers across New Zealand, North America, Europe, and Asia.
The ride is self-supported and has a purpose to raise money for WaterAid. The best part? He only picked up unicycling during COVID after finding a discarded unicycle.
🗺️ Track Norm Joe here. He is currently in the great state of Montana! https://unicyclecircumnavigationoftheglobe.maprogress.com/
Brandon Semenek pops up every now and then to remind us why he’s one of the best! In this edit, he shreds the full spectrum from red hot to slow-mo green to a quite blue.
The riding is smooth, stylish, and cinematic, and the mood lands.
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🐋 Surfing with orcas
📍 Bering Sea, Alaska
Cold water and majestic orcas cruising straight through the lineup. What starts as a surf session slowly turns into one of those surreal wildlife encounters that feels impossible even while you’re watching it.
This deep dive into Recreation.gov unpacks how booking campsites and wilderness permits has turned into a digital arms race dominated by bots, impossible odds, and a government contractor making millions off public land reservations.
Somewhere between empty campgrounds, frustrated hikers, and automated permit-grabbing scripts lies a bigger question: who actually gets access to the outdoors now?
Deep in the Rockies, hundreds of miles from the ocean, Salida built one of the best river surfing waves in the country.
This documentary traces how kayakers, wave shapers, and river obsessives transformed a stretch of the Arkansas River into the unlikely center of Colorado surf culture.
Put this on your summer itinerary!
🚣 The river queen
Back in 1979, Patricia “Patso” Stow stepped into California’s rafting scene as one of the few women guiding rivers in a deeply male world. Decades later, she’s still charging—learning to kayak at 58, running whitewater with her sons, and becoming what friends call the “rock of Gibraltar” of the boating community.
This short film is part river history, part love letter to a life built around the current, community, and showing up for adventure at every age.
🌍 Suffering the FOMO?
(Pssst, this is where you should be right now!)
🧗 Rocklands season is here
Every southern winter, climbers migrate toward South Africa for cold temps, perfect friction, and endless orange sandstone boulders scattered across the Cederberg mountains.
Peak season runs from June through August, nights get genuinely cold, and the place is far more remote than first-timers expect — bring layers, a good headlamp, and enough skin care to survive weeks of sharp rock and dry air.
🎿 Chile’s hidden ski paradise
The Andes are just around the corner. You should already be organizing your ski trip!
While most skiers will flock to Portillo (Chile) or Las Leñas (Argentina), Nevados de Chillán quietly delivers tree skiing, volcanic terrain, natural hot springs, and some of the best storm skiing in South America.
The season fires up in late June and runs through September, but storms can get heavy and roads occasionally close, so rent a 4x4, expect slower mountain logistics, and leave time for weather windows!
If you are lucky, you’ll get these kinds of vibes!
Signing off, we leave you with some original tunes straight from the Alabama Hills!
