Really sad news to wake up to. Liz Daley was a regular on the splitboard.com forum, regularly posting stoke-filled trip reports of some ridiculous couloir or other in Chamonix. She was a friend of friends and fb is full of love and memories today.
Andreas Fransson’s film “Tempting Fear” has been stuck in my head since I saw it 2 years ago. The Lyngen Alps section has seen me take 2 trips up there and planning another. He did some amazing things.
JP Auclair, I’m not much of a skier, but he was at the top for a long time. I watched his section in All I Can yet again just the other day.
So sad to see handfuls of truly incredible people leaving us every year. And they’re just the more well known that we hear about.
I go into the backcountry for my jollies, and it has given me the jolliest of all the jollies I’ve had, but there times when it’s tinged with so much loss that you wonder whether it’s worth it.
Alselm Baud after the death of his son, Eduard, to a serac fall in the mountains:
“Better to be lost to one’s passion than to lose one’s passion.”