Ski touring

A week aboard a yacht in Arctic Norway, skinning up from the shoreline each morning and skiing back down to it.

The Silvretta Runde — a week hut to hut over glaciated 3,000-metre summits on the border.

A week timed to Siberian storms that drop fifteen metres of the lightest snow on earth over a season.

Five days skinning and skiing at Murodo in April, where the road is cut through snow walls twenty metres high.

Proper alpine touring an hour from Kraków airport.

Summit-to-sea descents launched from a boat — skin up from the shoreline, ski back down to it.

Eight days skiing and sailing in the high Arctic, where the rifle in the guide's bag is not decoration.

Three days climbing Hokkaido's perfect volcanic cone on skins, then dropping into the crater itself.

Five days in Aomori, where trees freeze into white figures and the annual snowfall is measured in double-digit metres.

The Venter Runde: a week of spring ski touring over Austria's 3,000-metre glacier summits.

Spain's deepest, most reliable ski-touring snow, in the high Pyrenees.

The sunny high valley of the eastern Pyrenees, with big descents off Puigmal and the Cadí.

Skinning up the highest range in the Sudetes, with glacial cirques and a summit dome above the tree line.

The most reliable snow in the Polish Beskids, with open slopes on Pilsko and forest tours to mountain huts.

Steep couloirs and deep powder in the highest and wildest mountains of Colorado.

Light, deep powder in the Cottonwood Canyons, half an hour from Salt Lake City.

Ski mountaineering off the summit of the Grand Teton and down the great couloirs of the range.

Troll Peninsula summit-to-sea descents, skinnable and skiable at midnight in April.