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The Iron Route

The Iron Route

Climbing Southern Via Ferrata If you’ve always wanted to scale a craggy cliff, but never quite conjured the nerve, try going vertical on a via ferrata. Italian for “iron way,” a via ferrata is a climbing route that features a permanent safety system—steel rungs, ladders, and bridges—embedded in the rock. While clipped into a cable [...]

Saving Our Snow: Champion Skier And Climate Change Activist Alison Gannett

Saving Our Snow: Champion Skier And Climate Change Activist Alison Gannett

Unlike most professional athletes, Alison Gannett was an environmentalist before she became a world champion freeskier. Gannett has been researching global warming ever since she graduated from the University of Vermont with an environmental science degree 20 years ago. In the 90s she provided the action shots in Warren Miller films and won multiple World [...]

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