In this issue of Ski+board we meet two female mountain guides in Chamonix. These women have not only overcome the challenges of working as foreigners in France, but have broken through the glass ceiling in a male-dominated profession. Magnus Wistrom skis with them, and finds they could teach some of their fellow male guides a thing or two about attentiveness to the experience and enjoyment of their clients.
Across the pond, Neil English visits what is now Canada’s second biggest resort, Sun Peaks, and falls in love with the place all over again.
Meanwhile, editor Colin Nicholson takes a more leisurely pace as he takes to the skies in a hot air balloon at the Swiss resort of Château d’Oex, where the first round-the-world flight began. And Andreas Hofer continues his quest to find the world’s first skiers in Mongolia.
