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10/11/2025 - Alpinism
First ski descent of Jones Route on Aoraki / Mt Cook in New Zealand On 01/11/2025 Ross Hewitt, Will Rowntree and sam smoothy made the first ski descent of the 'Jones Route' on the massive East Face of Aoraki / Mt Cook (3724m) in New Zealand. The 1000m line has been graded 5.5 E4. Hewitt provides the details.
12/03/2022 - Snow Ski-skimountaineering
Mount Ethelbert South Face first ski descent by Christina Lustenberger, Mark Herbison, sam smoothy On 05/03/2022 Christina Lustenberger, Mark Herbison and sam smoothy made the first ski descent of the South Face of Mount Ethelbert (3180m) in the Purcell Mountains in Canada. The 45°, 1400m descent, was skied with just one short abseil.
25/02/2022 - Snow Ski-skimountaineering
Christina Lustenberger, Mark Herbison, sam smoothy ski East Face of Mount Ethelbert in Canada Alpinists Christina Lustenberger, Mark Herbison and sam smoothy have completed the first ski descent of the East Face of Mount Ethelbert (3180m) in the Purcell Mountains in Canada.
09/11/2021 - Snow Ski-skimountaineering
Aoraki Caroline Face in New Zealand / Second ski descent by Joe Collinson, Will Rountree, sam smoothy On 21 October 2021, New Zealand mountaineers Joe Collinson, Will Rountree and sam smoothy made the second descent of the 2000m Caroline Face of Aoraki / Mt Cook, at 3724m the highest mountain in New Zealand.
23/01/2015 - Competitions
Swatch Freeride World Tour by The North Face: Chamonix kick-off The Swatch Freeride World Tour 2015 by The North Face kicks off tomorrow with the first stage in Chamonix, France.
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