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How B.C.'s Heli-Skiing Industry Wants to Make the Sport More Inclusive

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Sixty years ago, a group of powder lovers flew by helicopter to a 9,000-foot ridge of Northpost Spire in the Bugaboos and then skied down 4,000 vertical feet through untouched snow on Vowell Glacier. They flew up again to 11,000 feet on Mount Conrad and then to 10,000 feet at Pigeon Spire. “We were in ecstasy” is how the inventor of heli-skiing, Hans Gmoser, described those first trial runs in “unbelievably beautiful” backcountry. That OG April …
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MONTECRISTO broke the news in on Monday, January 5, 2026.
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