Minutes before I get into the helicopter, my heart starts beating faster. I can feel the crazy energy of the base area and how excited everyone is to rip the best day of their life. Once loaded into ...

Since the 1990s, well-heeled visitors have flocked to Valdez for some of the most famous adventures in the skiing world: guided helicopter tours to long, steep mountain slopes with untouched powder ...

Alaska looms large in skiing’s collective imagination. From Sammy Carlson’s seasonal excursions to Teton Gravity Research’s slate of films, flick after flick has featured the towering peaks of the ...

If you’re itching for a powder fix this winter, there’s no better way to score than hitching a ride in a helicopter. Forget the hour-long lift lines, the ski patrol ropes and the mountains of tracks.

May 7—Three Valdez residents with a passion for skiing have received a preliminary decision from the state of Alaska that, if finalized, will advance their ambitious plans to build a ski resort ...

A heli-skier descends a mountain north of Valdez at Thompson Pass. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management working on a plan for permitting the next decade of heli-skiing on the lands it manages in the ...