The Last Ride
TAKING ON KILI AND CLIMATE CHANGE The Last Ride is a daring four-year project to climb and ski the highest mountain in every continent before climate change robs them of the snow to do it. Mark Edwards speaks to filmmaker and skier Jon Moy before he and the rest of the team take on Mount Kilimanjaro.
Skiing down Russia's Mount Elbrus – the first of the seven summits tackled by The Last Ride team
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kiing can be risky, especially when, like seasoned adventurers Edward Salisbury, William Tucker and Jon Moy, your tastes run to freeskiing, a form of the sport that throws away the rules and ventures beyond the groomed terrain of the piste, leaving the skier at one with the unique challenges of the wild mountain, such as large drops, hidden obstacles, crevasses and even avalanches.
Ed, Will and Jon have ramped up the risk even further with their latest ambitious project, The Last Ride, in which they will attempt to climb up and then freeski down the highest mountain in each of the world’s continents. However, the risk the project is most concerned with raising awareness of is not that faced by the UK skiing trio and their support team, but rather to the vital signs of our planet earth. Human-caused climate change
is plundering the planet and it has even reached the world’s highest points, thinning glaciers and diminishing snow cover. The Last Ride, which is anticipated to take just under four years to compete, is so named because it is unlikely there will be enough snow on the seven summits – Elbrus in Europe, Kilimanjaro in Africa, Aconcagua in South America, Denali in North America, Vinson in Antarctica, Puncak Jaya in Indonesia and
