Davide De Masi, a ten-year resident of Chamonix, runs through some of the high points of the Tripoint area surrounding this hot spot in the Alps.

There’s no foolproof equation for choosing the right ski length and width, but using your height, weight, skiing ability, and preferred terrain as a guide will help you identify the range of lengths that will work best for you.

In the past there has only been one Golden Rule for backcountry skiing: There are no friends on powder days. This is always said tongue-in-cheek and implies that powder days should be feeding frenzies where it’s every man for himself, but with the stratospheric rise in backcountry popularity, just the opposite is now true: There’s […]