Adam Fabrikant and Billy Haas bring some closure to their fall trip to the Chilean Andes. Consider this 13th episode their Chile debrief. We learn how a seasoned team pivots objectives and envisions what Fabrikant calls the 5×5: ascents and ski descents of five different 5,000m peaks. As South America builds into what we hope is a robust winter, let Fabrikant and Haas plant an adventure seed.
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Some more details (and photos) about the fine adventure had by Hennessey, Gardner, and Fabrikant highlighted in Episode 10 of the THR Podcast: Up the Cassin, ski the NWB, and a walk to Wonder.
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Time to dream big: Sam Hennessey, Michael Gardner, and Adam Fabrikant discuss climbing the Cassin Ridge and a first ski descent down Denali’s Northwest Buttress, followed by a walk out to Wonder Lake. An impressive 64-hour push in the Alaska Range.
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This episode of The High Route Podcast is brought to you by our good intentions to fill you with joy. Episode 5 brings together Adam Fabrikant, Billy Haas, and Lou Dawson to discuss the golden age of ski mountaineering and the darker side of powder fever.
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In episode 3 of The High Route Podcast, we bring together two high level practitioners of their respective crafts. Kelly Cordes and Adam Fabrikant.
If you are unfamiliar with Cordes and his work, you are about to familiarize yourself with a gem. He’s a notable alpinist, mixologist, and even a better writer—which is saying something. If you haven’t read his classic book The Tower, please do. It’s such a good and in-depth read. Although a fine, very competent skier, Cordes comes to mountain travel as an alpinist first and skier second.
Fabrikant is the opposite—he comes to the conversation more as a sharp end ski mountaineer seeking first descents than an alpinist.
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