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Hiking to “get to the goods,” as photographer
Rob Kingwill puts it, was
in no short supply on this trip. Hebert
and Ryland Bell bring up the rear
as Kingwill snaps photos from the
front. “We got to a point where they
were pretty haired out,” he says. “I
managed to do a couple of climbing
moves to get us to this really beautiful
line that went all the way to the
valley floor.”
Zermatt is a hub for heli-skiing, as
well as big-mountain rescue training.
“There’s a TV show on the heli crew
there called ‘Air Zermatt,’” Kingwill
explains. “They’re definitely some
of the world’s best rescue people.”
The group’s own guide in Zermatt
was kind but tentative. “I think we
scared him a little bit,” Kingwill jokes.
“[We told him] ‘It’s fine dude, let’s
just ski down this little chute, it’ll be
awesome,’ and he was like ‘No, I go
around. Don’t die!’”
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