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Mount St. Elias — Record for Vert in One Ski Run
It took a few days for this news to filter in to WildSnow HQ, but here it is for those who have not heard it already:
The expedition on St. Elias, photo courtesy Red Bull.
In what’s possibly a milestone event for ski mountaineering history, on August 11 Axel Naglich of Kitzbuhel Austria made what is claimed to be the first ski descent of monstrous Mount St. Elias in Alaska. (Or has Elias been skied before?)
This plum descent is not only one of the world’s “last great ski mountaineering problems,” but also ends up being the record for vertical feet skied in one route, as in, get this, 5 Kilometers of vertical from the summit to the mountain’s base! That’s over 16,000 vertical feet!!
This was a Red Bull expedition and is covered in detail at the Redbull website.
In a nutshell: Naglich and his companions tried the peak in May but were turned back, then did a second (and ultimately successful) attempt in August. It sounds like Naglich’s companions downclimbed from the summit, while Naglich made a bold move and dropped a ski route that was NOT their climbing route, thus nailing a solid descent from the summit. The guy is hardcore, check out his resume.
Mount Saint Elias is known for horrendous weather that can snuff out life like a gigantic fly swatter of the gods. Storms lasting for months can roll in and drop hundreds of feet of snow. Ice forms readily because of the maritime climate — in 2002, Americans Reid Sanders and Aaron Martin slide to their deaths of the icy summit while trying to do a ski descent (article here).
As far as I know this is the first ski descent of Elias, but perhaps I forgot about something I should have remembered. Interenet search reveals little — anyone know the answer? Either way, Naglich and his companions did an excellent and inspiring job that’s exciting to read about and good stoke for our coming winter! |
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