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Back Country Magazine, 2000

The Shining Path
Below us lay the Vallée Blanche which is considered the greatest ski run in the world. Surrounded by the peaks
of the Mont Blanc range, we were truly in the birthplace of alpinism and ski-mountaineering. Pushing off onto the
impenetrable frozen crust of the glacier, we began our final descent into Chamonix under the gaze of the spirits
of all the climbers and skiers who had passed through these granite peaks over the last 100 years....
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by Brian Litz
Back Country Magazine no. 22, 2000
Web site: www.backcountrymagazine.com
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