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Which techniques should we use to ease the proper management of our equipment? The is Alex and Tony's main concern in every situation in the mountains. Follow their journey through the epicenter of Chamonix, France, learning steep-skiing techniques along the way.

Alex Pittin & Tony Lamiche depicts the ideal way to move in the mountains, whether in vertically or horizontally. The #1 rule remains: Caution and good communications are key.

2 of the world's best mountaineerers are back with a new season of steep skiing action and mountaineering advice. Tony Lamiche and Alex Pittin have been visiting three zones at the start of this season, which so far has consisted in a lot of precipitation and wind. A lot of heavy precipitations and record strong winds in the mountains have pushed Tony and Alex to explore these three zones in search of the areas with less avalanche risks. Those important amounts of snow bring a certain humbleness and alertness and imposes a cautious attitude whether it be in the forest, in the transition zone or in the alpine areas whilst steep slope skiing.

Visibility and cloud coverage impacts the quality of the snow and plays an essential role on any ski route. To be able to safely progress, you have to make the right decisions, if you don’t, the consequences can be devastating. Follow world-class mountaineers Alex Pittin and Tony Lamiche while they give a quick glimpse of their everyday life.

In 2015 the new Skyway Monte Bianco opened, replacing the rustic funivia cable car that for decades transported skiers and alpinists up to Punta Helbronner on the Italian side of Mont Blanc. Oscar Taiola, a mountain guide and icon of the former cable car and now safety manager for the new Skyway shares his passion for the high mountains while recounting the history of there former lift through to its current state of the art incarnation. Times and the technology might have changed, but as skiers Tony Lamiche, Alex Pittin, Kaj Zackrisson and Josh Daiek discover, the mountains haven't.

Val de la Clarée is one of the last quiet corners of the French Alps, but it could have been very different. In the 1970's a proposed highway and tunnel threatened to open the valley up to development, but the local farmers and residents protested. Mark Abma, Leo Ahrens, Tony Lamiche and Timothée Theaux visit this quiet valley to live of the grid in a restored chalet for a week of skiing under their own power.