Backcountry Magazine 157 | The Historic Issue backcountry The mid-fat widths

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A Simple Line When Maxime Turgeon experiences too much routine on a faraway expedition

Poised above the clouds in B

this perseverance to find and create routes through the trees lives on in the spirit of creative skiers

WISDOM: AN UNINTENDED LEADER

Backcountry Magazine 157 | The Historic Issue backcountry The mid-fat widthsOn the Cover: For more than three decades, Sven Brunso has chased endless winter. At 53, the lone destination remaining on his snow sliding bucket list was Antarctica, which he ticked off in October 2023 with Ice Axe Expeditions. Brunso and photographer Liam Doran went to the bottom of the world confident they would be skiing with penguins; they didnt expect chest deep snow. But they found just that. From summit to ice choked sea, Doran captured