Backcountry Magazine December 2012 - Photo Annual Bags Hayden Kennedy writes of an

Hayden Kennedy writes of an expedition to the Kishtwar Himalaya in India

we run a photo gallery

featuring a hand sketched carabiner on one side and Alpinist logo on the other

In an abysmal winter of record low snow totals

the climb would be all we need

Backcountry Magazine December 2012 - Photo Annual Bags Hayden Kennedy writes of anFEATURES Sky People and Powder Eighty miles south of Wyoming's Teton Mountains are the Wind Rivers, a range seldom visited in winter but rumored to be a couloir skiing paradise. Last May, Brigid Mander and crew left spicy spring conditions in Jackson for the Winds where they found the skier's Valhalla they were expecting. That is until the Shoshone Sky People expelling them with wolverines, whiteouts and midwinter conditions. The Life and Death a