higher love: skiing the seven summits
Higher Love is an incredible journey through the physical and psychological landscapes of Kit’s amazing life. You’ll get to see the mountains through Kit’s eyes, feel the intensity of her focus, and delve into the mind of the incredible woman that is Kit DesLauriers."
-jimmy chin
oscar-winning filmmaker
"Higher Love: Skiing the Seven Summits" is a world-topping adventure sharing the Everest-sized dreams and obstacles that come along with skiing the world’s tallest mountains and living true to your nature.
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Weird Winters
Warmer, shorter winters may sound like an impact of climate change that would inspire more joy than despair. But rising temperatures and decreasing snowpack won’t just transform water supplies and species ranges. It will also disrupt a multi-billion dollar winter sport industry, including the jobs and local economies associated with …
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Backcountry: 2021 Skills Guide
Backcountry – I’m strict about my wilderness medical training and have been Wilderness First Responder (WFR)-certified since I started backcountry skiing decades ago.
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Kit on Dr. Oz
Spending time with people outside is one way to be social during the pandemic, but are you risking more this winter by being in the cold more? Kit was recently interviewed by Dr. Oz on how healthy it is for us and our families to be outdoors and playing any …
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Can More Wilderness Trips Save the World?
Outside – How you learn to conduct yourself in a challenging mountain environment with a small group of colleagues is precisely how to approach a career and the big challenges of life.
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Kit DesLauriers – Hall of Fame Nominee
Ski Hall of Fame – Kit is one of the greatest female ski mountaineers in history.
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DesLauriers to be enshrined in ski and snowboard hall
Jackson Hole News and Guide – Ski mountaineer Kit DesLauriers will be inducted into the US Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame.
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Raising Rippers: Kit DesLauriers’ Guide to Jackson Hole
Ski Mag – Raising Rippers: The DesLauriers’ guide to Jackson Hole and the adventures of parenthood.
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National Geographic 2015 Adventurer of the Year
National Geographic – “If anything went wrong, there was no way that a rescue could get to us that day, and there was a storm moving in the next day,” remembers ski mountaineer Kit DesLauriers…
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The Future Is Female and These 40 Women Are Proof
Outside Online – In honor of Outside’s 40th anniversary, we’re selecting our all-time favorite gear, places, accomplishments, and people. This month, we rounded up 40 women who have made the biggest impacts on our world….
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Podcast interview with Kit on The Stokecast
The Stokecast – Top athletes, adventurers, and outdoor entrepreneurs reveal strategies for how to crush the work, life, and adventure balance while having fun and making a difference…
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Kids and an Exciting Mountain Career? It’s Complicated
Outside Online – These women chose to have both a family and a job as a pro skier or mountain guide. But they’re often subjected to a public narrative that either villainizes or discredits their decision…
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Inside the Mind of a True Ski Mountaineer: Kit DesLauriers
Teton Gravity Research – Kit DesLauriers’ career is an extraordinary medley of firsts: The first person to ski the Seven Summits; first female to win back-to-back Freeride World Tour championships; first female solo of the Grand Teton…
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