Originally featured in Outer Edge magazine. On a clear day the snow-cloaked mountain peaks near Gulmarg in northwest India rise into the blue sky exactly like the Alps near Lugano in Switzerland or those of Squaw Valley in California. This simple epiphany struck American freestyle skier Lel. C. Tone as she paused to survey the world from 14,000 ft, propped up on ski poles and with goggles pushed up on her head on the slopes of the Kashmiri Himalaya. “To …
Category: Adventure
Originally published Outer Edge Magazine. Two of adventure racing’s biggest stars recently rolled into the offices of Outer Edge to chat about running and paddling, riding through the world’s remotest regions and their lives lived together, in love. Individually they don’t stand out from an after-work crew of ski paddlers and stand-up boarders milling about on a windy Port Melbourne beach car park one November Thursday afternoon. It’s just after knock off time and people are pulling fibreglass watercraft of …